easily apprehend that a donation of this kind, dealing with the property of others, is of no effect. I shall not enter here upon any discussion as to the power of the Pope, that is the Bishop of the Roman Church, nor shall I advance anything but a hypothesis which is accepted by men of the greatest erudition, who lay the greatest stress on the power of the Pope, especially the Spaniards, who with their perspicacity easily see that our Lord Jesus Christ when he said “My kingdom is not of this world” thereby renounced all earthly power,[31] and that while He was on earth as a man, He certainly did not have dominion over the whole world, and if He had had such dominion, still by no arguments could such a right be transferred to Peter, or be transmitted to the Roman Church by authority of the ‘Vicar of Christ’; indeed, inasmuch as Christ had many things to which the Pope did not succeed,[32] it has been boldly affirmed--and I shall use the very words of the writers--that the Pope is neither civil nor temporal Lord of the whole world.[33] On the contrary, even if the Pope did have any such power on earth, still he would not be right in using it, because he ought to be satisfied with his own spiritual jurisdiction, and be utterly unable to grant that power to temporal princes. So then, if the Pope has any power at all, he has it, as they say, in the spiritual realm only.[34] Therefore he has no authority over infidel nations, for they do not belong to the Church.[35] It follows therefore according to the opinions of - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - potioris partis tam Theologorum quam Canonistarum,[36a] non esse idoneum titulum adversus Indos, vel quia Papa dederit provincias illas tamquam dominus absolute, vel quia non recognoscunt dominium Papae; atque adeo ne Saracenos quidem isto titulo umquam spoliatos. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cajetan and Victoria and the more authoritative of the Theologians and writers on Canon Law,[36] that there is no clear title against the East Indians, based either on the ground that the Pope made an absolute grant of those provinces as if he were their sovereign, or on the pretext that the East Indians do not recognize his sovereignty. Indeed, and in truth, it may be affirmed that no such pretext as that was ever invoked to despoil even the Saracens. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAPVT IV _Lusitanos in Indos non habere ius dominii titulo belli_