Why A 16th Century Man Might Accept Time Travel
(i) Miracles were common religious doctrine.
(ii) It was an age of revolutionary discoveries, inventions and ideas.
(iii) Spanish fiction in particular was full of chivalry and enchantment.
(iv) Scientists had not yet said that time travel was physically impossible.
(v) Philosophers had not yet argued that it was logically impossible.
(vi) Luis Castelar has just been transported from 1533 AD to 1610 AD to 2937 BC.
Someone with later scientific or philosophical knowledge might argue that the experience of being transported between centuries and millennia must be delusory or deceptive but Castelar accepts what he sees, hears and is told. He does not understand temporal mutability and leaves that to God.
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