a people of New Mexico in North America. They are brave, resolute, and warlike, fond of liberty, and the inveterate enemies of tyranny and oppression. Of this disposition the Spaniards had fatal experience towards the end of the last century, when they revolted against the Catholic king, massacred several of his officers, and committed the greatest devastations. Ever since, they have remained the allies, not the subjects, of the Spaniards; and the viceroy of Mexico has been obliged to maintain a more formidable garrison, and a greater number of troops.

APÆDUSIA, denotes ignorance or unskillfulness in what relates to learning and the sciences. Hence all persons uninstructed and illiterate are called apædeutes. The term apædeutes was particularly used among the French in the time of Huet; when the men of wit at Paris were divided into two factions, one called by way of reproach apædeutes, and the others eruditi. The apædeutes are represented by Huet, as persons who, finding themselves either incapable or unwilling to undergo a severe course of study in order to become truly learned, conspired to decry learning, and turn the knowledge of antiquity into ridicule, thus making a merit of their own incapacity. The apædeutes in effect were the men of pleasure; the eruditi the men of study. The apædeutes in every thing preferred the modern writers to the ancient, to supercede the necessity of studying the latter. The eruditi derided the moderns, and valued themselves wholly on their acquaintance with the ancients.

APAGOGÉ, in logic. See ABDUCTION.