Feijoo's Españoles Americanos (Teatro critico, tome IV, discourse VI)

A discourse written because a reader told the author he had printed a common error. Feijoo had reported that Spaniards born in America ripen early and decay early; corrected, he devoted a whole discourse to destroying the second half, answering a saying with named living men and explaining the criollos' early degrees by their method of study rather than by their climate. Read in the Madrid 1773 printing of the fourth tome.