"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."

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And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

— Christopher Columbus