 In 1895, during the final Senate vote on Şăineanu's naturalization, Urechia gave an applauded speech in which he likened the linguist with the Trojan Horse, urging his fellow parliamentarians not to allow "a foreigner into the Romanian citadel".As part of their Romantic reaction against the "Junimist" call for professionalization, controlled modernization and Westernization, the "Revista Contimporană" group sought to portray the liberal approach as motivated by historical precedence.George Călinescu writes