Storia do Mogor 281.7.7

281.7.7

Yet if the reasons are thoroughly investigated, there need be no surprise. For the reverend fathers of the Society of Jesus, being lords of that island, do their utmost to increase its revenue, to be used, as they say (God knows if it is true), 'to the greater glory of God'; and it is with this thought in their minds that their reverences make no scruple of protecting those wretched and abandoned women, together with their infamous trade. Being convinced of the truth of the precept that the end justifies the means, they do not allow the women to be interfered with in the smallest degree. If on some occasions there have been persons so rash as to interfere, they have never failed to meet with prompt and terrible chastisement. For it must be admitted that the criminal law of their reverences is something both frightful and cruel.