"If Spain could find herself once more, after the dreary century of disunion and weakness – if she could once more take the place to which her history and her genius entitles her – then it will be a victory not only for Spain but for Europe. It will bring back to the European society an essential element without which European civilization has become one-sided and incomplete. And we must hope that the spirit which saved Europe from Islam and turned the tide of the Reformation is not dead: that out of the agony and destruction of the present crisis Spain will be reborn."
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Christopher Dawson, 'Spain and Europe', The Catholic Times (12 March 1937), quoted in Christina Scott, A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson 1889–1970 (1984), pp. 129-130
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