religion without tolerance for another; privileged troops and military leaders in civil commands; convents of religious of both sexes instituted in conformity with the canons of the Roman Church; three million citizens with no property at all nor no known means of subsistence; half a million with political rights to vote in elections without knowing how to read or write; military tribunals judging certain privileged cases; finally, all the incentives of an unlimited liberty and the absence of all social guarantees, cannot fail to produce a perpetual war among such heterogeneous factions and such opposing interests. Make disappear that confluence of anomalies that mutually contradict each other. I will conclude this discourse presenting to the readers the state of income, expenses, and resources of New Spain, omitting minute details that form the object of my work.
