Show A VANISHED civilization work done by the jesuits in south america the pioneers of civilization in south america were the jesuits says lippin cotts although their influence in many respects may not always have been what was most conducive to the prosperity of the new settlement yet ye their mode of treating the natives was more humane and their plan for the d development and progress of the country cound more advanced than any other attempts of that period they sought bought to establish a permanent home for their sect with a wealth and splendor that mat would equal that of the old world and their work wai characterized by prudence industry and wisdom other settlers canie came only as fortune hun hunting ting adventurers to enslave the natives pillage the country and then return to their own land with ill gotten ruins gains monuments of the jesuits still remain in churches aqueducts clues cities in ruins rains and the history of prosperous missions is from the amazon to brazils southern borders we see their signs the aqueducts of hlo do de janeiro the hundred churches of bahia the stone water dams on the rivers avers of goyaz golaz the crumbling ruins of almost every state of brazil ten tell of the jesuit occupation other settlers of that period left almost nothing behind them their mission was to destroy tear down and m drive out oat the enly element of good the country had that they might establish es ULO the rel reign of terrors terror slavery and d rag that earled the country so lawn laag |