The Lawless Roads [antikvár]

AUTHOR'S NOTE This is the personal impression of a small part of Mexico at a particular time, the spring of 1938. Time proved the author wrong in at least one of his conclusions - the religious apathy in Tabasco was more apparent than real. A month after the author left Villahermosa, the capital, peasants tried to put up an altar in a ruined church. Bloodshed and an appeal to the Federal Government followed, with the result that the Bishop of Tabasco was allowed to return to his diocese, the first resident bishop for fourteen years. There remains Chiapas NOTE TO THIRD EDITION Eleven years have passed since this book was written, and it may seem now that the author dwells too much on a religious situation liable to change at the expense of more permanent sides of Mexican life. My excuse must be that I was commissioned to write a book on the religious situation, not on folklore or architecture or the paintings of Rivera. Those interested may find on page 106 and the succeeding pages the source of my story. The Power and the Glory. 1950