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into action. Ungenerous laureate, the narrow policy 
of the times has kept your countrymen in the dark 
with regard to the true character of the Society of 
Jesus; and you draw the bandage still tighter over 
their eyes, by a malicious insinuation. I lived, and 
taught, and died in Brazil, where you state that 
none but the good principles of my order were-called 
into action, and still, in most absolute contradiction 
to this, you remark we believed the idolatry we 
taught in Brazil. Thus we brought none but good 
principles into action, and still taught idolatry ! 
“ Again, you state there is no individual to whose 
talents Brazil is so greatly and permanently indebted 
as mine, and that I must be regarded as the founder 
of that system so successfully pursued by the jesuits 
in Paraguay; a system productive of as much good 
as is compatible with pious fraud. Thus you make 
me, at one and the same time, a teacher of none 
but good principles, and a teacher of idolatry, and a 
a believer in idolatry, and still the founder of a sys¬ 
tem for which Brazil is greatly and permanently 
indebted to me, though, by the by, the system was 
only productive of as much good as is compatible 
with pious fraud! 
“ What means all this ? After reading such in¬ 
comparable nonsense, should your countrymen wish 
to be properly informed concerning the Society of 
Jesus, there are in England documents enough to 
show that the system of the jesuits was a system of 
Christian charity towards their fellow-creatures, ad¬ 
ministered in a manner which human prudence 
SECONJT 
TOURNEY. 
