"Prior to the arrival of the Christians they had the nature, customs, religion and practice of evil sacrifice as we have explained."
 
 

Now "they are as different from their primitive condition as civilized people are from barbarians, or as those with sight from the blind, as the inhuman from the meek, as the pious from the impious, or to put it in a single phrase, in effect, as men from beasts." [P. 219]