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Silva, Ivo Rafael – Orgulho e Preconceito: a visão <strong>de</strong> um vitoriano acerca <strong>de</strong> Portugal e<strong>do</strong>sportugueses 129 – 148início a necessida<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> este país alterar concepções e comportamentos. Veja-secomo o autor se refere, e em que termos, por exemplo, às or<strong>de</strong>ns religiosas –católicas – existentes nas diversas ilhas <strong>do</strong> arquipélago <strong>do</strong>s Açores:Numerous nests of ecclesiastical hornets infested these little islands, andwith the most arbitrary and unrestrained tyranny trampled upon theindustrious people, and by <strong>de</strong>grees reduced them to a state of unbridledsuperstition, ferocious bigotry, and licentiousness of the most <strong>de</strong>gradingnature. A state of moral <strong>de</strong>pravity to this day exists in the convents andmonasteries in the Azores, happily unknown, in its extent, in even themother country in the Peninsula. 12E <strong>de</strong> não muito diferente forma, com igual criticismo, sarcasmo emordacida<strong>de</strong>, se refere às freiras que os ocupavam:The immoral habits of these women [freiras] was a matter of generalnotoriety; and an Irish physician, who had for some time been medicalattendant at the convent, informed me that it was no unusual part of hisduty to officiate as accoucheur; and that at that very time several illegitimatechildren of the nuns were within the walls of the convent. It is a curious fact,that one of these children is quite black, although its reputed mother isaltogether fair, and one of the prettiest nuns of the party. 13Merece realce a última frase <strong>do</strong> parágrafo transcrito, on<strong>de</strong> há uma evi<strong>de</strong>ntemanifestação <strong>do</strong> já atrás referi<strong>do</strong> pensamento racista que também caracterizara operío<strong>do</strong> vitoriano. O autor não só alu<strong>de</strong> a uma criança que tinha a pele “bastantepreta”, como salienta o facto <strong>de</strong> a sua mãe além <strong>de</strong> ser “branca”, ser “uma das maisbonitas freiras <strong>do</strong> convento”.13 4- 3 5.12 HOD G E S , G e org e Ll oy d . Na r rat iv e o f t h e E x pe dit io n t o P o rt ugal , Vo l. I, p p.13 Ibid ., p. 238.Polissema – Revista <strong>de</strong> Letras <strong>do</strong> ISCAP – Vol. 12 -2012142

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