"] If, on the contrary, we consider the life of men and of States as merely a fraction of a collective existence, whose final purpose does not rest on enjoyment, but on the development of intellectual and moral powers, and if we look upon all enjoyment merely as an accessory of the chequered conditions of life, the task of the State will appear in a very different light.

Every year a considerable sum is appropriated to it in the national budget, but scarcely a fraction of it ever reaches Orotava.