had to take up the trail of the flying neophytes, follow them
to the recesses of the forests, and persuade them to come back.

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* The Paulistas were the inhabitants of the Portuguese (now Brazilian)
town of Sao Paulo. Azara, who hated the Jesuits (his brother,
Don Nicolas de Azara, having been concerned in their expulsion),
says that fear of the Paulistas contributed to the success of the Jesuits
with the Indians. Dean Funes (`Historia del Paraguay', etc.)
says just as reasonably that it was fear of the Spanish settlers.
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As a means to secure the confidence of the Indians, the Jesuits
found themselves obliged to communicate as rarely as possible
with the Spanish settlements. Thus, from the first the policy of isolation,
which was one of the chief charges brought against the Order in later years,
was of necessity begun.* Voltaire, no lover of religious Orders,
says of the Jesuits:** `When in 1768 the missions of Paraguay
left the hands of the Jesuits, they had arrived at perhaps
the highest degree of civilization to which it is possible
to conduct a young people, and certainly at a far superior state
than that which existed in the rest of the new hemisphere.
The laws were respected there, morals were pure, a happy brotherhood
united every heart, all the useful arts were in a flourishing state,
and even some of the more agreeable sciences; plenty was universal.'

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* There was, however, a royal Order (`cedula real') which applied
to all America, which especially prohibited Spaniards from living
in the Indian towns, and, moreover, provided that even for purposes of trade