Note XXX-60 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.
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The clergy have, indeed, lost much of their influence. The mode of life of the majority of them cannot inspire respect. Letter from Costa R. by a British consul, quoted in Squier's Cent. Am., 468-9; Wappäus, Mex. und Cent. Am., 360. Laferrière, writing for 1873, gives a discreditable picture of the church, its priests and feasts. De Paris à Guatém., 56.