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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:56:45 EST
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- From: Pierre Blackburn <LDAA@VM1.SI.USHERB.CA>
- Subject: Cortez, Pizarro and Montesquieu
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- In the "Discours sur les motifs qui doivent nous encourager aux
- sciences", Montesquieu says that an important factor in the invaders
- (Cortez and Pizarro) success was that the indigenous population
- thought they were kind of surnatural because of their appearance and
- technology. Is this a) false, b) partially true, c) true.
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- The passage is "C'est que tout leur paraissait nouveau, un homme
- barbu, un cheval, une arme a feu, etait pour eux l'effet d'une
- puissance invisible, a laquelle ils se jugeaient incapables de
- resister. Le courage ne manqua jamais aux Americains, mais seulement
- l'esperance du succes".
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- Pierre Blackburn
- Departement de philosophie
- College de Sherbrooke,Quebec, Canada Ldaa@vm1.si.usherb.ca
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