. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. - .f f IfiH^;. 162 â â¢M W AXDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. to r>razi1, and see with thine own eyes tlie clTcct oi' Poinbar^ sliort-sightod policy. Thtiro vico reigns trium- phiint, and learning is at its lowest ehh. Neither is this to 1)(3 wondered at. Destroy the compass, and will the; vessel find her far-distant port ? AVill the flock
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. - .f f IfiH^;. 162 â â¢M W AXDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA. to r>razi1, and see with thine own eyes tlie clTcct oi' Poinbar^ sliort-sightod policy. Thtiro vico reigns trium- phiint, and learning is at its lowest ehh. Neither is this to 1)(3 wondered at. Destroy the compass, and will the; vessel find her far-distant port ? AVill the flock keep together, and escape the wolves,, after the sliepherds are all slain ? The Brazilians were told that public education would go on just as usual. They might have asked government, who so al)le to instruct our youth as those whose know- ledge is proverbial ? who so lit, as those wlio enjoy our entire confidence ? who so worthy, as those whose lives are irreproachable. They soon found that tliose who succeeded the fothers of the Society of Jesus had neither their manners nor tlieu' abilities. They had not made the instruction of youtli their particular study. Moreover, they entered on the field after a defeat, where the officers had all been slain; where the plan of tlie campaign was lost ; wdrere all was in sorrow and dismay. No exertions of theirs could rally the dispersed, or skill prevent the fatal conse(]^uences. At the present day, the seminary - i ' ^linda, in comparison with the former Jesuits' colleoe, is onlv .'^ the wanin!:^ moon's beam to the sun's meridian splendour. When you visit the places where those learned fathers once flourished, and see with your own eyes the evils their dissolution has caused; when you hear the inhabitants telling you how good, how clever, how charitable they were; what will you think of our poet laureate for caUing ihem, in his " History of Brazil," " ]\Iissioners, whose zeal the most ianatical was directed by the cool
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