Note 14 — The Spanish Friars, After 1898

The limpid purity of purpose in the lofty ideal of uplifting all humanity, so characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, was unfortunately obscured in the latter days of Spanish dominion in these Islands by the multifarious devices to convert the Church into a money-making channel. If the true religious spirit ever pervaded the provincial Filipinoʼs mind, it was quickly impaired in his struggle to resist the pastorʼs greed, unless he yielded to it and developed into a fanatic or a monomaniac.14