 Torquemada was a skilled and careful historian, constrained only by some obvious usages and common attitudes of his age.Like others of his time, he puzzled over the problems of fitting native peopling of the New World and their development into a Biblical framework, and seldom doubted authenticity of miracles, or the Providential intervention which accounted for Cortes' Conquest as an expression of Divine Will.But for the most part he went at his tasks with professional coolness, and a rather high degree of historiographical craftsmanship.