THE WEST.

PART I.-SPAIN.

PART II.-HUNGARY.

"No man is by nature either an aristocrat or a democrat : their disputes relate not, then, to system of government, but to their own advantage."-LYCURGUS.

Eviter in Snail in 1546, and were to

missi mnde the tit of Amount of Spain STERS OVER ENTZONS, MEDIATIONS, awarung agamst the danger of two manisering somehow disappeared

£ For However, having been taken afrini, and recently discovered, I

us for the Europeans'

PART I.

SPAIN.

CHAPTER I.

How circumstanced for the Development
of Opinion.

THIS age is distinguished by extent of knowledge and contrariety of judgments,- -a misfortune no less than a contradiction, and which arises out of the habit of attaching importance to News. Things which, if announced beforehand, would be held too improper to be possible, are, when done, taken as the data on which maxims are to be formed for our future guidance. Our morals as nations are what the morals of individuals would be who took for their standard facts, that is, the cases brought for trial before the courts of law. Thus it is that knowledge is divorced from wisdom, and that we have much speech and little profit.

Unless a man knows what, in a given case, ought to be done, he can never know what has been done; information can be of servicely to them w ean class it, be it science, the difficulty of classing task is here to unlearn; whoever chooses may

his is all that is

These pages were written in Spain in 1846, and were to have been published under the title of "Account of Spain with Europe, in INVASIONS, INTERVENTIONS, MEDIATIONS, and MARRIAGES," as a warning against the danger of two nubile Princesses. The manuscript somehow disappeared on its way to Madrid. A copy, however, having been taken by the precaution of a friend, and recently discovered, I have thought it might be of use for the "Europeans themselves.

PART I.

SPAIN.

CHAPTER I.

How circumstanced for the Development
of Opinion.

THIS age is distinguished by extent of knowledge and contrariety of judgments,—a misfortune no less than a contradiction, and which arises out of the habit of attaching importance to News. Things which, if announced beforehand, would be held too improper to be possible, are, when done, taken as the data on which maxims are to be formed for our future guidance. Our morals as nations are what the morals of individuals would be who took for their standard facts, that is, the cases brought for trial before the courts of law. Thus it is that knowledge is divorced from wisdom, and that we have much speech and little profit.

Unless a man knows what, in a given case, ought to be done, he can never know what has been done; information can be of service only to them who can class it, be it science, be it conduct. In the latter case, the difficulty of classing does not arise from ignorance. The task is here to unlearn;

the life of the spirit is on the lip; whoever chooses may stop on it the garrulity of his fellows, and this is all that is required to recover from the decrepitude of his times.