“The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men” MenWorldChildrenPersonsAmericaHumanityDifferencesHistoryVirtueMen And WomenAdultsMercyCrueltyIslandsNew WorldContinentsColonialismInferiorsPrudenceGoverningApesMercifulIngenuityInferiorityBarbariansProdigiousSpaniardsBad TemperAztec Author:Juan Gines de Sepulveda