Quotes from Janet Hobhouse

there was almost no opinion, however nonsensical, that wasn't tolerated, at least for long enough for it to be delivered. But it wasn't just that, nor his charm nor eccentricity, his sometimes slovenly, sometimes stunning intelligence, that made him so attractive as a tutor; it was the utterly unfamiliar sensation one got, as a student, of his respect for, or at least well-performed interest in, what one thought.

That's what people say about Mexico, Morgan said, a death culture, the Indians and their blood sacrifices mixed with all the Moorish-Christianity of the Spanish. Under all the sun and fiesta, the seventeenth century lurks.