De Angulo, by reviewing, condenses Prof. Simarro's book, and at once places its contents within reach of the English reading public.
Like all Knowledge, History imparts foresight. What is not known does not exist to him who knows not. He who does not know history is doubly blind—blind as to the Past; hence, still blinder as to the Present; and blinder still as to the Future.
While a knowledge of the Ferrer tragedy may well impel a cry of agony—"Are we still in the days of Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'; or, worse yet, in the Dark Ages?"—neverthelesa, the fact that this latest felony against the Human Mind, differently from those of the Ages of Mental Slavery, was quickly followed, and on the spot, by its bold exposure, is cause for joy. The fact measures the distance Man has traveled since—and it gilds the Future, a Future that is at hand.
