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Exaggerated flattery will
deceive us and put us to sleep, while outside our walls we shall be
laughed at, and the day in which we become an object of ridicule, we
shall fall as we fell in Europe. Money will not flow into our churches,
no one will buy our scapularies or girdles or anything else, and when
we cease to be rich we shall no longer be able to control consciences."
"But we shall always have our estates, our property."
"All will be lost as we lost them in Europe! And the worst of it is
that we are working toward our own ruin. For example, this unrestrained
eagerness to raise arbitrarily the rents on our lands each year, this
eagerness which I have so vainly combated in all the chapters, this
will ruin us! The native sees himself obliged to purchase farms in
other places, which bring him as good returns as ours, or better. I
fear that we are already on the decline; quos vult perdere Jupiter
dementat prius.[49] For this reason we should not increase our burden;
the people are already murmuring.


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