Decay of the Spanish Character 198 Charles the Fifth, Philip the Second 199 Philip the Third 200 Philip the Fourth 201 Charles the Second 203 Degradation of the Country 203 Religion sinks into Bigotry 204 Loyalty sinks into Servility 207 Literature fails with Character 209 THIRD PERIOD. THE LITERATURE THAT EXISTED IN SPAIN BETWEEN THE ACCESSION OF THE BOURBON FAMILY AND THE INVASION OF BONAPARTE; OR FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY PART OF THE NINETEENTH. CHAPTER I. REIGN OF PHILIP THE FIFTH. Death of Charles the Second 213 His Will 214 War of the Succession 214 Peace of Utrecht 214 Philip the Fifth 215 Academy of the Language 216 State of the Language 217 Dictionaries of the Language 219 Dictionary of the Academy 219 Its Orthography 220 Its Grammar 221 Its other Labors 223 Other Academies 223 State of Poetry 224 Moraes 225 Reynosa, Cevallos 226 Lobo, Benegasi 227 Alvarez de Toledo 228 Antonio Muñoz 228 Sagradas’s Flores 228 Jorge de Pitillas 229 CHAPTER II. REIGN OF PHILIP THE FIFTH, CONCLUDED. Marquis of San Phelipe 230 French Influences 232 Translations from the French 233 Ignacio de Luzan 233 Elder Works on Criticism 235 Enzina, Rengifo, Lopez 236 Cascales, Salas 236 Luzan’s Poética 237 State of the Moral and Physical Sciences 239 State of the Universities 240 Low State of Spanish Culture 240 Benito Feyjoó 242 His Teatro Crítico 244 His Cartas Eruditas 244 Effect of his Works 245 CHAPTER III. REIGNS OF PHILIP THE FIFTH AND FERDINAND THE SIXTH.