Why should we be interested In knowing the

forces which contributed to indolence?

How then and in what way was the active and the
enterprising healthen Indio of ancient times converted
in to a lazy and indolent Christian, as our contemporary
writers says of him.
We have already spoken of the more or less latent
tendency to indolence existing in the Philippines and
should exist everywhere, in the whole world, in every
man, for all of us hate in varying degrees, according to
whether it is more or less hard, more or less
unprofitable. The dolce far niente of the Italians, the
rascarse la barriga (scratch the belly) of the Spaniards
and the supreme ambition of the bourgeois to live in
the peace and tranquility on his income, attest this.

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