these poor savages wonderfully improved they acquired a thousand wants of which they had before been ignorant and as he has most y sources of happiness who has most wants to be gratified they were rendered a much happier race of beings but the most important branch of civilization and which has most been by the zealous and pious fathers of the is the introduction of the christian faith it was truly a sight that might well inspire horror to behold these savages stumbling among the dark mountains of and guilty of the most vol i g by ic f t history of horrible ignorance of religion it is true they neither stole nor they were sober continent and faithful to their word but c though they acted right habitually it was all in vain unless they acted so from the new comers therefore used every method to induce them to embrace and practise the true � indeed that of s ig them the example all these complicated labours for their good such was the obstinacy of these stubborn wretches that they refused to acknowledge the strangers as their and persisted in the doctrines they endeavoured to most that from their conduct the of did not seem to believe in it themselves was not this too much for man patience � would not one suppose that the from europe provoked at their incredulity and discouraged by their stiff obstinacy would forever have abandoned their shores and consigned them to their original ignorance and misery � but so zealous were they to effect the comfort and eternal salvation of these pagan that they even proceeded from the means of persuasion to the more painful and troublesome one of let loose among them whole troops of fiery and furious � them by fire and sword by stake and by new m consequence of which measures the cause of christian love and was so rapidly advanced that in a very few years not one fifth of the number of existed in south america that were found there at the time of its discovery what stronger right need the european advance to the country than this have not whole nations of savages been made acquainted with a thousand imperious wants and indispensable comforts of which they were before wholly ignorant � have they not been literally hunted and out of the and lurking places of ignorance and and absolutely into the right path have not the things the vain and filthy of this world which were too apt to engage their worldly and selfish thoughts been taken from them and have they not instead thereof been taught to set their affections on things above � and finally to use the words of a reverend spanish father in a letter to his superior in can any one have the pre to say that these savage have yielded any thing more than an � to their in surrender ing to them a little pitiful tract of this dirty planet in exchange for a glorious in in the kingdom of heaven by history of here then are three and sources of right established any me of which was more than ample to establish a property in the newly discovered regions of america now so it has happened in certain parts of this delightful quarter of the globe that the right of discovery has been so the influence of cultivation so extended and ihe progress of salvation and civilization so that what with their attendant wars diseases and other partial evils that often ha on tha skirts of t benefit s � the savage have some how or another been utterly � md this all at once brings me to a fourth right which is worth all the others put for the original to the soil being all dead and buried and no one remaining to inherit or dispute the soil the as the next immediate occupants entered upon the possession as clearly as the to the clothes of the � and as they have and all the learned of the law on their side they may set actions of at defiance � � nd this last may be entitled the by or m other words the right by gun powder but lest any scruples of conscience should remain on head and to settle the question of com b ii c by york t right for ever his pope alexander vi issued a bull by which he generously granted the newly discovered quarter of the globe to the and who thus law and gospel on their side and being with great spiritual zeal showed the pagan savages neither favour nor affection but the work of discovery civilization and with ten times more fury than ever thus were the european who first discovered america clearly entitled to the soil and not only entitled to the soil but likewise to the eternal thanks of these savages for having come so far endured so many perils by sea and land and taken such pains for no other purpose but to improve their forlorn and condition � for having made them acquainted with the comforts of life for having introduced among them the light of religion and finally � for having hurried them out of the world to enjoy its reward but as argument is never so well understood by us selfish mortals as when it comes home to ourselves and as i am particularly anxious that this question should be put to rest forever i will suppose a parallel case by way of the candid attention of my readers let us suppose then that ihe inhabitants of the moon by astonishing advancement in science and by a profound insight into that philosophy by history of the mere of which have of late years dazzled the feeble and the shallow brains of the good people of our let us suppose i that the inhabitants of the moon by these means had at 