SECOND ABUSE_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

It is an abuse that, although the spiritual administration belongs by

right to the secular clergy, and the regulars possess it precariously

ad nutum [misprinted mitum] regis propter inopiam clericorum

in principio, [75] the greatest promotion which an unemployed

secular obtains in Filipinas is to be the servant or deputy of the

fathers. [76] Thence it results that the latter abound in so great

wealth, collectively and singly, and the former suffer from necessity;

and all of them are the sons of Spaniards and Indian women, and all

vassals of the king. In view of this disclosure, what father will

spend and what son will work without even a remote hope of reward?

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