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

1882.838 - 1904.078 Jean-Paul Faguet

The Spaniards that were conquering Colombia were basically coming out of a late medieval culture where they were intensely religious. They really believed in God. They believed that the Christian and Catholic God was superior, you know, the one true God. And if you didn't believe, you're going to hell. And that the Spanish emperor was the agent of the one true Catholic God and so on and so forth.