Excerpt from On the Resources, Productions and Social Condition of Spain: Read Before the Amer. Phil. Soc., January 15, 1875 During the same momentous period, serfdom and Slavery had been condemned or abolished in both continents, and with it the feudal system and the corv e. During the same time mankind had armed itself with the titanic powers Of steam and electricity, and rushed with renewed strength into that perpetual struggle with nature,...