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Updated: June 17, 2025
Castelar went back to his chair of philosophy, which he had never resigned, poor as he left it, to the modest home and the devoted sister whom he loved so well and no one laughed! Is there really any other country than Spain where such things can happen?
Historical knowledge, due to long and laborious studies, and the spirit of historical inquiry, are not often found in the same person, combined with argumentative power and the quality of imagination stimulated by an emotional nature. From what we know of Emilio Castelar of Spain, it may be said that he possesses this rare combination in a degree beyond any other living man.
In the first Cortes summoned after the Restoration, thanks to the good sense of Castelar, the Republican party, from being conspirators, became a parliamentary party in opposition. Zorilla alone, looking upon it as a sham, retired to France in disgust.
Content to lose his wife, Alfonso was quite unwilling to lose her broad domain, and consequently Aragonese garrisons were installed in some of the principal Castilian fortresses, while Urraca, a prisoner, was confined in the fortress of Castelar.
Spain Threatened with Interior Difficulties Danger that the Crown Might Be Lost to the Baby King of Spain Don Carlos and the Carlists Are Active Castelar Is Asked to Establish a Republic General Weyler as a Possible Dictator History of the Carlist Movement and Sketch of "the Pretender."
Emilio Castelar said to me one day, "Toledo is the most remarkable city in Spain. You will find there three strata of glories, Gothic, Arab, and Castilian, and an upper crust of beggars and silence." I went there in the pleasantest time of the year, the first days of June.
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