In any case, it should be noted that Manuel Múrias recognises on several occasions that history is never free of intentions, and that there is always "a motive that drives the historian, and even the very choice of the subject to be dealt with already indicates a subjective inclination that points to the demonstration of a thesis." ( O Seiscentismo em Portugal, p. 78). In the case of Múrias, this thesis begins with the mentality crisis identified with the nationality crisis, for which a "cultural restoration" was needed; with the Estado Novo, this "restoration" had been achieved, and, as he wrote in the 1940s in the weekly newspaper Acção , he was "certain that we have a doctrine and firmly believed that we are a force". The thesis became that there was a need to affirm a "national specificity", namely with regard to what he saw as the Portuguese role in the expansion and transmission of civilisational values throughout history, a kind of mission aimed at "fulfilling Portugal".

Active bibliography: O Seiscentismo em Portugal, Lisboa, s.n., 1923; "Cultura peninsular no Renascimento", separata da Nação Portuguesa , Lisboa, Nação Portuguesa, 1925; “Nacionalismo e Catolicismo. Teoria do Nacionalismo Português”, Nação Portuguesa, tomo I, n.º 5, pp. 329-343 e tomo II, n.º 10, pp. 281-292, 1927; “Nacionalismo e Catolicismo. Conceito de Tradição”, Nação Portuguesa, tomo II, n.º 7, pp. 24-36, 1927; “Nacionalismo e Catolicismo. O génio português”, Nação Portuguesa, tomo II, n.º 11, pp. 343-354, 1927; “Espanha e Portugal”, Nação Portuguesa, tomo II, n.º 11, pp. 355-358, 1927; “As razões do nosso tempo”, Nação Portuguesa, tomo II, n.º 12, pp. 409-418, 1928; Portugal: Império, Lisboa, Livraria Clássica Editora, 1939; História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo (com António Baião e Hernâni Cidade), 3 vols., Lisboa, Ática, 1937-1940); História Breve da Colonização Portuguesa, Lisboa, Agência Geral das Colónias, 1940.

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