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happiness. Often it does not. No one can 
doubt that there was infinitely more happiness 
under the rule of the old Jesuit Fathers than at 
the present time. With all the mistakes and 
limitations of their time and their creed, the 
Jesuits fought for human liberty, whether 
against the open raids of the Paulistas or the 
more insidious attacks of the Spanish governors 
at Asuncion, who regarded slavery as the 
proper destiny for the Indian, and looked on 
anyone who tried to rescue him with an amazed 
disgust. The Jesuits fought and they were 
beaten, and it was this which caused their 
downfall. The fight still goes on, but there are 
no Jesuits to help. Slavery formerly, contract 
labour to-day, it is one and the same thing, 
glossed over though it be with the forms of 
democracy and liberty. No one can regard 
without a sinking of heart any extension of this 
kind of modern industrialism. 
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