"I would like all of you to feel the very high need that in every city, in every town, you have institutions of high culture, of creation, of scientific research, and that everywhere, nourished by those, there were centers elementary or scientific dissemination and human and citizen education. ”
Jaume Bofill i Matas, member of the Council of the Institute of Culture and Popular Library of Women, Of Female Spirituality, Conference II of the series organized by M. Iltre. Board of Ladies of Barcelona in the Sala Mozart. Delivered on December 15, 1916. Barcelona, Bloud and Gay, Editors, 1916.