The Castilian question: whether the Indians should be made to speak Spanish

Whether to compel the peoples of the Indies to abandon their languages for Castilian was argued in the Council of the Indies. The compiled law settled it on the side of persuasion: masters for those "que voluntariamente la quisieren aprender", at no cost to them, while parishes went only to priests who knew the Indian language well. Solórzano prints the rule and dissents, reaching for Rome and for the ban on Arabic imposed on the Moriscos of Spain.