In this short excerpt from Sepulveda’s book THE SECOND DEMOCRATES, he describes the Indians as, half-men, Barbarians, and Inferiors, to the Spanish who acquire more prudence, more skills, more virtues, and more humanity than “these barbarians of the New World.” He continues to belittle them by stating that they are “cowards” and “timid” because their “thousands upon thousands” of men were frightened away by “Spaniards so few that they did not even reach number one hundred” and had “no proof of human cleverness.” Sepulveda further describes them as a “barbarous nation” and that they were clearly “have been born to slavery and not to civic and liberal life.” Juan Gines de Sepulveda as a renowned superior to the Indians, whom they see as barbaric,
