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in sulted the honest religious their endowments of character and industry, as religion and morality.... From this it is clear that the basis for Sepúlveda's teaching that these people a uncivilized and ignorant is worse than false. Yet even if we were to grant that this race to submit themselves to those who are more intelligent and to adopt their ways, so that, has no keenness of mind or artistic ability, certainly they are not, in consequence, obliged if they refuse, they may be subdued by having war waged against them and be enslaved, as happens today. For men are obliged by the natural law to do many things they cannot be forced to do against their will. We are bound by the natural law to embrace virtue and imitate the uprightness of good men. No one, however, is punished for being bad unless he is guilty of rebellion. Where the Catholic faith has been preached in a Christian man- ner and as it ought to be , all men are bound by the natural law to accept it, yet no one is forced to accept the faith of Christ. No one is punished because he is sunk in vice, unless he is rebellious or harms the property and persons of others. No one is forced to embrace virtue and show himself as a good man.... Therefore, not even a truly wise man may force an ignorant barbarian to submit to him, especially by yielding his liberty, without doing him an injustice. This the poor Indians suffer , with extreme injustice, against all the laws of God and of men and against the law of nature itself. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Why does Las Casas reject Sepúlveda's argument? What is the basis of his reasoning? 2. How does Las Casas depict indigenous American civilization? What attributes does he highlight, and why? 3. Why does Las Casas cite the example of Rome's conquest of Spain under Caesar Augustus to support his point? 4. Despite Las Casas's vigorous defense of the Indians, what prejudices and assumptions of his own did he bring to bear in this work?