Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, reported the following:"In my travels through the endless Spanish Empire I have been admired of how the Spaniards treat the Indians, as similar, even forming mestizo families and creating hospitals and universities for them, I have met indigenous mayors and bishops and even military, which results in the social peace, well-being and general happiness that we already want for us in the territories that with so much effort, we are taking them away.
It seems that London mists cloud our hearts and understanding, while the clarity of sunny Spain makes God see and hear better. The honorable members should consider the policy of depopulation and extermination, since Spanish faith and intelligence are clearly building, not like us an empire of death, but a civilized society that will finally end up being imposed as by divine mandate.
Spain is the wise Greece, the imperial Rome, England the Turkish privateer. "
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