インディアスについて及び戦争法について（カーネギー古典叢書、ベイト訳、1917年）

12, and Tertia Pars, qu. 68, art. 10. The whole of this controversy and dis¬ cussion was started on account of the aborigines of the New World, commonly called Indians, who came forty years ago into the power of the Spaniards, not having been previously known to our world. This present disputation about them will fall into three parts. In the first part we shall inquire by what right these Indian natives came under Spanish sway. In the second part, what rights the Spanish sovereigns obtained over them in temporal and civil matters. In the third part, what rights 306 these sovereigns or the Church obtained over them in matters spiritual and touching religion, in the course of which an answer will be given to the question before us. As regards the first part, it might seem at the very outset that the whole of this discussion is useless and futile, not only for us who have no concern either to inquire whether the men in question have conducted their administration with propriety in every detail or to raise any doubts about that business or to correct any fault that may have been committed, but also for those whose concern it is to attend to and administer these matters.