Far from being, in the author's humble misleading words, one of those "tales attributed to the fantasy of old women", and very close to becoming "almost a book on moral philosophy.almost a book on politics and mundaneness due to its observations" "The Pilgimage." is a masterpiece of political thought and observations upon its practice in the real Latin American world. Dated at London in 1871, "The Pilgrimage of Daylight, or Travels and Adventures of Truth in South America" is an overwhelming warning cry that today stands amazingly actual in view of today's Latin American political panorama. Being a reader of John Locke , David Hume, Alexis de Tocqueville and James Madison, it was Alberdi's clear mind that understood the freedom implied in the American Constitution: in his words "to declare freedom is not to constitute it. It is not a matter of declaring rights no one denies, but to constitute deeds no one practices". For years Alberdi's harshness was pointed out as a product of his...

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