- That New Spain was backward in philosophy at that time because such was the philosophy of the epoch, is false.
- The ideas and impulse in the modern philosophical sciences, which New Spain received during the last years of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth century, did not come mainly from Spain, but from the other principal nations of Europe.
- It follows, from Spain and New Spain having been backward in philosophy, that they were also backward in theology, jurisprudence, medicine, and in all the sciences, because philosophy is the basis of all.
- The expression, “Spain taught us what she herself knew,” is not a good excuse or exoneration.
- The scholastic philosophy is useful; the pseudo-scholastic is prejudicial.
- The history of the viceroyal government is most useful.
- This dissertation is a new book.
- “Not as a spider, nor as an ant, but as a bee.”
- The union between Spaniards and Mexicans is very useful; but history cannot be silenced by the claim that it is a social union.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN AGUSTIN RIVERA AND FLORENCITO LEVILON.
“How are you, sir?”
“How are you, Florencito? When did you arrive?”