Note 118 — Chapter IV

But besides putting into execution all his histrionic talents, he had the adroitness to address himself to those feelings of self-interest which he knew were perhaps more powerful than those of admiration and respect for his own saintly proceedings in his new diocese. Crétineau Joly, in his ‘Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus’, vol. iii., p. 333 (Paris, 1845), tells us that Cardenas ‘parle aux Espagnols, il s’addresse à leurs interêts, il réveille les vieux levain de discorde . . . et il accuse les missionnaires d’être seuls les apôtres de la liberté des Indiens.’