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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 13: the Jesuits. (search)
omething in this hush and shade which carries you in fancy to yet holier spots of earth? Glancing from the Spanish fountain to the Syrian palms, I ask the Jesuit father whether it is certain that their work is done. Yes; that which they could do best is done. Your company will not try to carry on their work? Not here and now. The time for such a course is past. Lessons in farming and in raising stock are not the things most wanted by people in these valleys. In Algiers and Paraguay, our Fathers taught the native how to till his soil and gather in his grain. At Santa Clara we have other things to do. The native race, for whom the brethren of St. Francis toiled, is all but gone. Our conflict lies in other fields. Varsi is right. His conflict lies in other fields than that in which Fray Tomas the Franciscan laboured. Pausing in the library, the theatre, and the playground, we note with curiosity his instruments of war. Our business, says Padre Varsi, is to ed