287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

1579.871 - 1598.046 Jean-Paul Faguet

At the beginning, they were kind of hedging their bets, saying, can we work with these people who are these weird people? They saw the Spaniards, a Spaniard knight mounted on a horse and thought this was one animal. They thought it was a godlike messenger, literally, because their cosmology predicted that the gods would send messengers who would have some sort of fantastical form.