82 ANTIENTMETAPHYSICS. Book T; 



CHAP. VIII. 



Of the necejfity of arts and offcitnces and a regular polity among Men, 

 — Without thefe^ men cannot be happy though ajfociated; and in cer- 

 tain circumjlanccs may be mojl iniferable,— This proved by the ex- 

 ample of the people of Paraguay in South America, — Of the tivo 

 Authors, Charlevoix and Mur atari, ivhogive us the hijlory of this 

 people. — The loft may be thought the more credible hifiorian \ but 

 Charlevoix s. Narrative vo ell vouched. — The country of Paraguay 

 of prodigious extent. — The inhabitants of it living under no go- 

 vernment, not even the family government, except in time 

 of ivar ; — the mojl favage and brutal people ive read of; — 

 no faith or honefly among them, nor fenfe of the Pulchrum 

 and Honeftum ; — addi^ed to the ufe of Jlrong liquors, ivhich 

 made them fill more barbarous ; — very dull and fupid ivhen 

 the Jefiiits came among them, but capable of being taught ; — itiore 

 difeafed than any civ ilifed people. — This accounted for. — Example of 

 other men ivho have lived in a brutifJj manner, but not fo brutifh 

 as the Paraguaife before they ivere civilifed. — Of the hardfhips 

 and dangers the fefuits ix^ent through in civilifing them. — Had the 

 great efl difficulty to get at fever al of thefe nations, through defartj 

 andforefs. — Had their languages to learn ; — and the'w Sorcerers 

 and Magicians to encounter. — Their greatefi obflacle ivas their ap- 

 prehenfon of the Spaniards making Slaves of them vnhen they nvere 

 Cbnjlians. — Of the martyrdom the Jefuits fuffered, to the number 

 of T^o, — Of the oppofition they met vuith from the Spanifh noblemen 

 •who governed the coinmanderies. — Notxvithflanding all thefe obfla- 

 cles, the jefuits in the beginning of this century had efablifJoed 30 

 Mtffions. — The greatefi order and good government in all thofe 

 miffions. — The Jefuits did not chufe that the nwnber in any of their 



mifjions 



