A Prophet in Shining Armor

A Prophet in Shining Armor

Cortes was born in Spain in 1809, a descendant of the conquistador Hernán Cortes. Having flirted with the ideas of the Enlightenment, he became increasingly critical of the liberal political ideas that were sweeping across Europe in the wake of the secularist tyranny of the French Revolution. Such tyranny was even worse, he argued, than the absolutist rule of monarchs who had abused their… Source