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He was a journalist, a popularizer of other men's ideas, gifted with a style at once clear and concise. Pi y Margall was sincere, enamoured of ideas, and took but little thought of himself. As to Costa, I confess that he was always antipathetic to me.
Salmeron was an inimitable actor, but an actor who was sincere in his part. He was the most marvellous orator that I have ever heard. As a philosopher, he was of no account, and as a politician he was a calamity. Pi y Margall, whom I met once in his own home where I went in company with Azorin, was no more a politician or a philosopher than was Salmeron.
But Brull did not dare, for fear of gossip. His dignity as a party leader forbade his entering that barbershop where the walls were papered with copies of "Revolution" and where a picture of Pi y Margall reigned in place of the King's. How could he justify his presence in a place he had never visited before?
Behind the monarchy lies the republic of 1873, behind Canovas and Castelar, Pi y Margall; the republic has merged into and was, in a sense, the foundation of the constitutional system of today. Even popular leaders such as Lerroux are quick to recognize this fact, and govern themselves accordingly.
Echegaray replied: "Yes, and your description suits me exactly." This cynically cheap joke might have fallen appropriately from the tongues of the majority of Spanish politicians. Among these male bailarinas, nearly all of whom date back to the Revolution of September, we may find, indeed, some men of austere character: Salmeron, Pi y Margall and Costa.
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