This was not at all the popular
idea among his associates and led to serious disagreements with
their leaders, for it was the way of toil and sacrifice without any
of the excitement and glamour that came from drawing up magnificent
plans and sending them back home with appeals for funds to carry on
the propaganda--for the most part banquets and entertainments to
Spain's political leaders.
His views, as revealed in his purely political writings, may be
succinctly stated, for he had that faculty of expression which never
leaves any room for doubt as to the meaning. His people had a natural
right to grow and to develop, and any obstacles to such growth and
development were to be removed. He realized that the masses of his
countrymen were sunk deep in poverty and ignorance, cringing and
crouching before political authority, crawling and groveling before
religious superstition, but to him this was no subject for jest or
indifferent neglect--it was a serious condition which should be
ameliorated, and hope lay in working into the inert social mass the
leaven of conscious individual effort toward the development of a
distinctive, responsible personality.
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