Volume 1

The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America ... / Translated from the French [of 'Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères'].

  • Society of Jesus
Date:
1714
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Credit: The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America ... / Translated from the French [of 'Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères']. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ss [49 ] ~ You may eafily judge how well grounded Certain. that Univerfal Opinion is, fince nothing but 4 of ths an infallible Certainty of their Cure, could #44. prevail on thofe miferable People to make Ufe of fuch a Remedy. Thefe are not Accidents to be interpreted according to Fancy, füppo- fing there is Fraud in thofe who fay they have been tormented, and are afterwards cur'd by Virtue of our Holy Religion. Men who mean honeftly themfelves, and are acquainted with tHe Genius of the Jndians, never think of having Recourfe to fuch Suppofitions. The Idolaters, and efpecially thofe who are moft devoted to their Idols, and who confequently are molt fubje& to be infulted -by the Devils, have à wonderful Prejudice againft the Chri- ftian Religion. They can expe& no Advan- tage by a Forgery of that Nature; they can fear nothing from the Chriftians , and have Caufe to apprehend every Thing from the In- fidels ; they run the Hazard of lofing all they have, of being contemn’d by their Race, or “Tribe; of being thrown into Goal, and of being abus d by their Countrymen. ,Thefe Obftacles are {till much more dreadful for thofe who are of Races which have but few Chriftians, and wherein of Confequence it would be very difficult’, and almoft impof- fible, after fuch a Change, to find any that would be ally’d to them in Marriage. * This laft Kefletion feems to me the moft confiderable ; but only thofe who live among thefe People can be fenfible of the utmoft Ex- tent of it. In order to form fome Notion of Greaz it, you are to conceive, and it is moft certain, ue of that there is ho Nation in the World where 01/4674 Parents are more fond of their Children ; the Je de Woe — Tender=