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jiiijftons /honld exceed 6.000, as they thought great numbers could 

 vot be ivell governed ; — ivere very attentive to the education of the 

 youth, teaching them all the ufejul arts of life. — Nothing the Sa- 

 vages learnt Jo ivell as mufic ; — learned the life of arms, and per" 

 Jormed great aclions both againjl the Indiant and Portuguefe ;^- 



not dejerted by the J'lfuits when in the field. Oppofition ^iven 



to the arming them ivith fire arms, — Of the divifton of property a- 

 viong them. — Ao money allonved among them. — JVere made mol 

 zealous Chrifiians. — Became Apoflles themflves, and fnjered mar- 

 tyrdom. — An account of their happy fate, given in a letter by the 

 Governor of Paraguay to the King. — The love they bore to their 

 teachers, and their teachers to them. — Of the methods by ivhich 

 the reformation ivas brought about. — ift, By Religion : — The In- 

 dians tamed and civili/ed by the jefuits, in the fime manner as the 

 Greeks voere by Orpheus. — 2dly, By Muftc, in the ivay that Am- 

 phion civil fed the Greeks : — The jefuits may alfo be compared to 

 Prometheus. — 3:10, By Government the Indians ivere civilifed. — 

 Without government Man an imperfed animal. — Obfervations 

 2ipon the Men of Paraguay in their ivild fiate. — The flate of 

 civilifation and government abfolutely neceffary to make men 

 live in an orderly ivay. — The Paraguaife iv anting thefe, and 

 having the ufe of firong liquors, the ivildefi people that ive have 

 ever heard of — No fenfe in them of the Pulchrum and Honeftum, 

 ivhich cannot be^ but ivhere there is government. — Of the difeafes 

 to ivhich they are liable ; and the reafons ivhy they are fo much 

 difeafed. Of the difference betivixt them and the inhabitants of the 

 Peleiv-Iflands, and the New Zealanders. — Of the methods ufed by 

 the Jefuits to civilife them ; and firfl Religion. — This natural to 

 man. — All men ivho have the leaf ufe of reafon, mufl be con- 

 'vinced that beings fuperior to man exifi : — Thefe beings they ivill 

 obey.— It ivas not by teaching only that the Jefuits made Chrifiians 

 of the Indians, but by a ivorfhip of pomp and /Jjoiv. — Of their pro- 



cefjions and triumphal Arches. — A particular defcription of them. • 



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