西班牙作为一个现代的集中国家是一种幻想，一个非常不幸的国家。对于目前的萎缩，一个世纪革命的荒凉结果很大程度上可能是由于在本质上是离心的土地上人为地施加了集中式政府。
(Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.)