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Historian Ramon Pidal's El padre Las Casas, su doble personalidad: In Las Casas, normal and abnormal activity coexist. This is the shift I believe is necessary to give to the biography; a shift whose new data and interpretive assessments, so different from the usual, I entrust to the examination of psychologists and historians. I have written these pages with reluctance, because, in them, Las Casas is presented to us in adverse light much more frequently than in favorable ones. And this cannot be otherwise: Las Casas's entire public life and all of his countless writings concern the Indians, and the writings completely distorted by the abnormal fixed idea, those that have had worldwide resonance, are those that have determined Las Casas's only notable action, while the other writings, in which abnormality appears only occasionally, barely give us biographical notes on Las Casas's activity free from false prejudice, so the normal Las Casas almost never appears before our eyes.

https://ia902805.us.archive.org/8/items/elpadrelascasass00mene/elpadrelascasass00mene.pdf

Headline is google translation: 

En Las Casas coexisten una actividad normal y una actividad anormal. Éste es el viraje que creo necesario dar a la biografía; viraje cuyos datos nuevos y cuyas apreciaciones interpretativas, tan distintas de lo habitual, confio al examen de los

psicólogos y al de los historiadores. He escrito estas páginas a

disgusto, porque, en ellas, Las Casas se nos presenta bajo aspectos adversos mucho más frecuentemente que bajo aspectos favorables. Y esto no puede ser de otro modo: toda la vida pública

y todos los innumerables escritos de Las Casas tocan a los

indios, y los escritos completamente deformados por la anormal

idea fija, los que han tenido resonancia mundial, son los que handeterminado la única acción destacada de Las Casas, mientras

que los otros escritos, en que la anormalidad aparece sólo de

tarde en tarde, apenas nos dan notas biográficas sobre la actividad lascasiana libre del falso prejuicio, así que el Las Casas

normal casi nunca aparece ante nuestros ojos.

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