Note 84 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
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38. May God deliver us from any one of those Indians whom they consider as sages, who says any bit of nonsense, even though it be against the faith,84 and they only respond, Vica nong maronong, “Thus say the sages,” and it is labor lost to persuade them to the contrary; for the authority that these scholars have over them is incredible.