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[ 1134] Inhumanity condemned.

BEnzo relating the Spaniards cruelty upon the poor Natives of America, saith,* 1.1 that in one of their Islands, called Hispaniola, of twenty hundred thousand, when the People stood untouch't, he did not think that at the time, when he penn'd his History, there were above one ••undred and fifty Souls 〈◊〉〈◊〉 alive; Whereupon he breaks out into a passionate exclamation upon the hor∣ror of such Inhumanity; O quot Nerones, quot Domitiani, quot Commodi, quot Bassiani,* 1.2 quot immites Dionys••i eas terras peragravêre! O, How many Neroes, how many Domitians, with other the like infamous, egregious Tyrants, have harrowed those Co••ntries? But had Benzo lived to have written the history of our times, he might have truly said; Barbarous and inhumane Christen∣dome! Men of blood and cruelty! whose hearts are so bound and confirm'd with sinews of Iron, that they are no more moved with the life of a Man, then if a dog had fallen before them; so fallen from their kind, as if Rocks had fa∣thered

them, and they had suck'd the Dragons in the Deserts, rather then the daughters of Men; Non in compendium,* 1.3 sed occidendi causa occidentes, murther∣ing upon every occasion, and killing because they delight in killing; whereas the care and study not only of Christians, but of Civil and good natur'd People, should be, Parce Civium sanguini, spare the bloud of Men, because they are all Kinsmen and Brethren in the flesh.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In hist. novi orbis.
• * 1.2

  Ah nimiùm sa∣ciles! qui tri∣stia crimina caedis, Flumi∣neâ tolli posse putatis aqua? Ovid. Fast. 2.
• * 1.3

  Seneca de Clem. lib. 2.