Storia do Mogor 281.17.8

281.17.8

Thus I can say in respect of the subject with which I deal, that all which had been done up to this time, as I have reported it, was probably insufficient to bring on a persecution of the Christians — neither the infractions of Hindu customs made unnecessarily, for mere reasons of convenience or profit, upon the credit or with the authority of the reverend French Jesuit fathers, nor the defects of conduct, the indiscreet and ill-regulated zeal of one particular father, nor the gross imprudence of their catechist. They [the Hindus] would not have proceeded to the extremities since reached, although those things irritated them, made them murmur, grumble, complain, menace even. Their phlegmatic temperament, which is not easily stirred, and loves not bloodshed nor extremes, stood as a strong embankment against the resentments aroused by the past. Besides, they could not display their anger without injuring those of their neighbours who had become Christians. So much did this influence them that they did not overpass due bounds, but bore with what had been done to them up to that time. Maybe they might have observed this peaceful attitude permanently.