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Gold Hill Daily News
Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada
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Emilio Castelar writes to the University of Madrid's Rector, vowing not to resume teaching without full intellectual freedom, criticizing the Church's post-Vatican Council absolutism as a danger to political institutions.
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"I am a partisan of liberty and law. As soon as, in the course of historic events, I see a sect attack the principles of freedom, I combat it. That course is now of exceptional importance, especially since the decrees of the Vatican Council have imprinted on the Church a stamp of absolutism full of danger for political institutions. Never shall I advise that this absolutism should be opposed by force, for its semi-Asiatic power is based on the human conscience, in the moral depths of which authority does not penetrate. But as a man, as a member of one of those associations which are called Universities, and which represent eternal science, I demand that, to estimate and judge those institutions, should be left that plenitude of intellectual liberty which I received from my nature, and which the law has sanctioned. As long as I do not possess that full and entire freedom I shall not reascend my chair, the inalienable rights of which are constantly menaced by the purely administrative power of the first comer who happens to be Minister at the moment."
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Madrid
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castelar refuses to resume his teaching position without full intellectual freedom.
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Emilio Castelar addresses a letter to the Rector of the University of Madrid, affirming his commitment to liberty and law, opposing any sect attacking freedom, particularly the Church's absolutism following Vatican Council decrees which threaten political institutions. He demands intellectual liberty to judge such institutions and states he will not return to his chair while his rights are menaced by ministerial power.