Note XXX-35 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.
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Infidelity spread extensively among the mestizos, and the white people also, so that the requirements of the church became constantly neglected. Obnoxious books were in the hands of all classes. Some of the more candid priests avowed deistical and atheistical notions. Crowe's Gospel, 256-7.