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OFTEN, MEDITATING ON THE FERVOR WITH WHICH SPAIN HAS EVER DEFENDED AND PROCLAIMED THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, I HAVE THOUGHT THAT IN THE DEPTHS OF THIS DOGMA THERE MUST BE A MYSTERY AKIN WITH THE MYSTERY OF OUR NATIONAL SOUL: THAT PERHAPS THIS DOGMA IS A SYMBOL ... OF OUR BEING. ...

ANGEL GANIVET.