Nov 1 1925
Dec 6, 1925
Posada,’La Lamma Intima’
Posted here (PDFs above)
Adolfo Posada
Ética y sociología de la revolución
La Nación
November 1, 1925
Adolfo Posada
Sociología y ética de la revolución
La Nación
December 6, 1925
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I have transcribed and translated both articles, which are posted here:
the original Spanish
November 1 SPANISH
December 6 SPANISH
English translations by Roger W. Smith
November 1 ENGLISH
December 6 ENGLISH
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Adolfo González-Posada y Biesca (1860-1944) was a Spanish jurist, sociologist, translator, writer and politician linked to regenerationism. He was Professor of Political Law the Universidá Complutense de Madrid
Regenerationism was an intellectual and political movement in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain. It sought to make objective and scientific study of the causes of Spain’s decline as a nation and to propose remedies. It is largely seen as distinct from another movement of the same time and place, the Generation of ’98. While both movements shared a similar negative judgment of the course of Spain as a nation in recent times, the regenerationists sought to be objective, documentary, and scientific, while the Generation of ’98 inclined more to the literary, subjective and artistic. (Wikipedia)
La Nación was a Spanish newspaper published in Madrid between 1925 and 1936. During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the newspaper was the central organ of the Patriotic Union and also served as the “official” newspaper of the regime. (Wikipedia)
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Acknowledgment:
I wish to thank Lindsay A. Stokalko, Archives Specialist, University Archives and Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan, for procuring this article from the Sorokin archives, and for overseeing photocopying of the document, which presented difficulties. Some Spanish archive presumably has copies of La Nación, but I was unable to find or obtain them anywhere else; and I doubt that Sorokin scholars have seen these articles before.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2023
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 