IX. still remain the same stubborn facts; and effectually to

reconcile them, so as to save the appearance of Papal Infallibi- lity, will puzzle even Jesuit ingenuity.
The part of the Brief of Pius IX., that restores the Order which Clement had suppressed for ever, runs as follows : —
" To Our Venerable Brother Constantine Patrizi, Cardinal of the grief for the Holy Roman Church, Bishop of Ostia and Vdletri, Deacon Jesuits.Mar. of the Sacred College of Cardinals, and Our Vicar-General in spiritual matters of Rome and of the district.
"Venerable Brother, — Health and Apostolic Benediction. The Church of God, like a queen clothed in varied apparel, since she has been adorned as with noble ornaments with different Regular Orders, has always sedulously availed herself of them to propa- gate the glory of the Divine Name, to expedite the business of the Christian Kingdom, and to introduce and spread among nations, by means of sound doctrine and charity, the polish of civilised life. The enemies of the Church, therefore, have per- secuted these religious Orders most of all, and from among them have singled out the Society of Jesus as the object of their special hatred, inasmuch as it is the most difficult to deal with, and, therefore, the most dangerous enemy of their designs. To Our grief we see that this is again taking place, while the in- vaders of Our temporal dominions, eager for their prey (which is always death-fraught to those who seize upon it) seem to long Death.fraushfc to begin the suppression of all Religious Societies, along with that of the Company of Jesus. To pave the way for this crime they strive to raise against it the ill-will of the people, and accuse its members of opposing the present Government, whilst, what is most to be noticed, they pretend that the power and the favour which they enjoy with Us, renders Us more hostile to the said Government, and exercises such an influence over Us that We do nothing without their advice. Now this foolish calumny,
liv Brief of Pius IX. favouring the Jesuits — concluded.
implying as it does the greatest contempt of Us, as being weak
and unfit to do anything of Ourselves, is plainly proved to be
absurd, since all know that the Roman Pontiff, when he has
implored divine light and aid, acts and orders as he judges right
and useful for the Church, but that in graver matters he has
been accustomed to employ the services of those, whatever be
their rank or condition, or whatever the Regular Order to which
they belong, whom he deems the most versed in the matter in
hand, and the most able to enunciate a wise and prudent opinion.
Of a truth We do often make use of the Fathers of the Society
of Jesus, and trust many things to their supervision, and more
especially matters concerning the Sacred Ministry. They on
their part, in performing these duties, show Us more and more
that affection and zeal, for which they have earned frequent and
high praises from Our predecessors. But this Our most just love
and esteem for the Society, which has always deserved well of
the Church of Christ, of this Holy See, and of Christendom, is a
very different thing from that slavish obsequiousness which Our
Calumny re- detractors lay to Our charge, and We indignantly repudiate this
pudiatec caiumny as regards Ourselves and the humble devotion of the
Fathers. We have thought that these things ought to be made
known to you, Venerable Brother, that the snares laid for the
Society might be made manifest, and that our sentiments, which
have been so shamefully and foolishly distorted and misrepresented,
might be put in a clear light, and thus prove a fresh testimony of
Our good will towards that noble Society.
******
" Given in Rome at St. Peter's on the 2nd day of March, in the year 1871, the 25th year of Our Pontificate."
The Jesuits, since their re-establishment, have showed them- selves worthy successors of those whose evil deeds brought on them the well-merited condemnation of the infallible head of the Reciprocal aid Roman communion. Like the ancient Praetorian guards, to whose office they have in fact succeeded, they are willing to raise their nominal Ruler to the highest dignity, in order to raise them- selves. They mean to rule the world by tyrannizing over the tyrant.
Excitement in the Jesuit Camp. Iv
In confirmation of this, the testimony of "Quirinus"* is of " Quirinus." remarkable importance.
" We may readily conceive the excitement in the Jesuit camp. After the patient, indefatigable toil of years of seed-time, the harvest-time seems to them to come at last. Up to 1773, their Order, from its numbers, the cultivation of its members, the influence of its schools and educational establishments, and its compact organisation, was unquestionably the most powerful Jesuits above religious corporation, but at the same time was limited and held Orders in check by the influence and powerful position of the other Orders. Augustinians, Carmelites, Minorites, and, above all, Dominicans, were likewise strong, and, moreover, leagued to- gether for harmonius action through their common hatred of the Jesuits, or through the natural desire to escape being mastered by them. Dominicans and Augustinians possessed by long pre- scription the most influential offices in Rome, so much so indeed that the two congregations of the Index and the Holy Oifice were entirely in the hands of the Order of Preachers, to the exclusion of the Jesuits. Since the restoration of the Jesuits this is completely changed, and entirely in their interest. All the ancient Orders are now in decline, above all, in theological importance and influence ; they do but vegetate now. More- over, the Dominicans have been saddled with a General thoroughly devoted to the Jesuits, Jandel, a Frenchman, who is exerting himself to root out in his Order the Thomist doctrines, so unpalatable to the Jesuits. The youngest of the great Orders, the Redemptionists or Signorians, act — sometimes willingly, some- Redempti times unwillingly — as the serving brothers, road-makers, and labourers for the Jesuits. And hence, now that they enjoy the special favour of the Pope, they have come to acquire a power in Rome which may be called quite unexampled. They have, in fact, become already the legislators and trusted counsellors of the Pope, who sees with their eyes and hears with their ears. To those familiar with the state of things at Rome, it is enough to name Piccirillo. For years past they have implanted and fos-
* "Letters from Rome on the Council." By Quirinus. Rivingtons, London. 1*71; pp. 76—79.
turn-
Guidi.
Ivi "Letter* from Rome on the Council." By Quirinus.
tered in the mind of Pius IX. the views he now wants to have consecrated into dogmas; and have managed to set aside, and at last reduce to impotence, the influence of wise men, who take a sober view of the condition of the times. When the Dominican Cardinal Guidi, who was then the most distinguished theologian in Rome, freely expressed to the Pope his views about the pro- jected Council and the measures to be brought before it, from that hour he was not only allowed no audience of Pius IX., but was excluded from all share in the preparatory labours of the Council, so that he remained in entire ignorance of the matters to be laid before it. But the Jesuits are also the oracles of many Cardinals, whose votes and opinions are very often ready-made The Gesu. for them in the Gesu. The congregation of the Index, which they used formerly so often to attack, blame, and accuse of partiality, when their own works were censured by it, is now becoming more and more their own domain, though the chief places are still in the hands of the Dominicans ; and this may gradually take place with most of the congregations in whose hands is centralised the guidance and administration of church affairs in all countries.
"And thus, if Papal Infallibility becomes a dogma, what inevitably awaits us is, that this Infallibility will not merely be worked in certain cases by the counsel and direction of the Jesuits ; much more than that. The Jesuits will for the future be the regular stewards of this treasure, and architects of the new dogmas we have to expect. They will stamp the dogmatic coinage and put it into circulation. It is enough to know the earlier history of the Society to know what this means, and what an immense capital of power and influence it will place at their Jesuits over command. ' Rulers and subjects ' — that will henceforth be the otherOrders. relation between the Jesuits and the theologians of other Orders. Worst of all will be the position of theologians and teachers who belong to no Order. At the mercy of the most contradictory judgments, as is already, e.g., the case in France, constantly exposed to the displeasure of the Jesuits, of the Curia, and of their Bishop or his adviser, and daily threatened in their very existence, how are they to get spirit, perseverance, or zeal for earnest studies, deep researches, and literary activity ? Everv
* »• * ,7
"Letters from Rome on the Council." By Quirinus. Ivii
Jesuit, looking down from the impregnable height of his privi- leged position, will be able to cry out to the theologians of the secular clergy, ' Tu longe sequere et vestigia prorsus adora ; ' for now is that fulfilled which the Belgian Jesuits demanded 230 years ago in their Imago Societatis Jesu. Their Order" is now really, and in the fullest sense, the Urim and Thummim and The Urim and breastplate of the High Priest — the Pope — who can only then issue an oracular utterance when he has consulted his breastplate, the Jesuit Order."*
Accurately measuring the weakness of human nature, they feel that their nominal Lord and Master will not readily forget their consummate skill, especially in the art of concocting poisons, and also of organizing conspiracies against the safety of states or of individuals. They are quite aware that his Holiness doubts neither their power nor their ability in applying these peculiar talents, when necessary. Therefore, with perfect safety to them- selves, did they force the exaltation of the Pope in every direc- tion. And is not the influence of the Jesuits continually met Safety- with ? Are they not ever assiduously insinuating themselves into high positions, and insidiously securing funds, as the sinews of power ? Do Jesuits not fill every civil office at the disposal of the Pope, and almost every Romish Bishopric ? Hence, nothing can be more evident, than the fact, that thus connected, they will rise in proportion as the office and attributes ot the Pope are exalted, but nothing is also more certain, than the sequel, that with the papacy they must fall, and the head corner-stone, crush- ing both, will be the infallibility of the Word of God.
But, in addition to the power of carrying out their schemes ; the Jesuits have attained, through the Dogma, another important result, viz., immunity from evil consequences. Papal Infallibility immunity, will be used to cloak every crime however flagrant. The Pope must bear the blame, but they will reap the advantage; or rather, the Pope being infallible, villainy will escape censure, provided that certain profit accrue to the Company. In vain need men cry out against whatever bears the stamp of Infallibility ; yet the Great Infallible may be a poor old man at the Vatican.
* " Obligatam hserentemque sanction Pontifici velut in pectore Socie- tatem." Bolland, Imayo, p. 622.
Iviii Under the cloak of Papal Infallibility.
Alas for the credulity of the dupes of this nefarious scheme ! What profound blindness must obscure the perception of all those abettors, who are thus willingly affording fresh licence to the deadliest foes of their own freedom, and of human progress ! Why not cast oif such slavery, and manfully resist claims alike blasphemous and usurping, which are purposely framed, so as the more securely to rivet the spiritual fetters, with which they are bound ?
But an awakening must come before long ; and, in the mean time, it is satisfactory for us to know, that, by endeavouring to Eockingof the screen themselves behind the Pope, the Jesuits are preparing in' a stupendous downfall for the whole Papal system. Were Roman Catholics to reflect, that Infallibility is now attributed to an old man, perhaps infirm, and trembling beneath the weight of years, who although Pope, yet is a mere puppet in the hands of men avowedly unscrupulous and designing, whom he feels to be the arbiters of his own life or death, —were this calmly considered, the sin and folly of submitting to a system so degrading, would be insupportable ; a system which destroys all spiritual life, and strives for worldly advantage, by ministering to a credulity, at once despicable, ridiculous, and debasing.
lix
THE TRAINING OF O'FARRELL, THE ASSASSIN.
Reference has been made to attempts at assassination, Assassination attributed to the Jesuits, as well as to those historically known to have been perpetrated by them. None seem too elevated for the malevolent designs of these conspirators. Henry IV. of France had attacks made on him by Jesuits again and Henry IV. again ; and at last perished by the hands of the Jesuit Ravaillac. Elizabeth of England shared in these attacks, but escaped the malice of these deadly foes. On the third of September 1758, an attempt was made at Lisbon to assassinate the King of Portugal, which he fortunately escaped, though not without being wounded. Several Jesuits were proved at the trial to have been active conspirators against the king's life. In later days, the same kind of attempts appear to have proceeded from the same source. The attempted assassination of the Emperors of Russia and France The Emperors in Paris, a few years ago, was perpetrated by one, who appeared to have received his inspiration from reading the writings of the Jesuit, Mariana. Similar suspicions attach to the education of O'Farrell, who attempted the murder of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in Australia, on March 12th, 1868.
It appears from the Papers laid before the Australian Parlia- ment, that O'Farrell had been educated with the intention of his entering the Roman Catholic Priesthood ; and by the Papal Brief directed to Cardinal Zurla in October, 1836, the direction of the education of that Priesthood was committed to the Jesuits.
The information supplied in the Australian Parliamentary Papers, especially the portion directly furnished by Mr. Parkes, who was then Colonial Secretary at Sydney, and by Mr. McLerie, the Inspector General of the Sydney Police, leave no reasonable doubt, that O'Farrell was connected with the Fenian conspiracy, which was at that time very mischievously active.
We have not . direct evidence of the connection of the Great Secret Society with the Fenian conspiracy, but there is presump-
Ix The Secret Society and Fenianism.
tive evidence of co-operation between the two organizations ; and to the indications of this we shall refer.
Hatred of the No. one can read the Ultramontane organs in Ireland without discovering how bitterly and skilfully the antipathy of the Irish is directed against everything English and Pro- testant. The article in the Dublin Review on " The case of Ireland before Parliament," indicates the intense sympathy of the Great Secret Society, whose sentiments it utters, with the objects which the Fenians had in view, while professedly finding fault with that organization. The subject is so cleverly dealt with, that, though no part can be detached from the rest as proof
Feuianism. of approval of Fenianism, yet every sentence adds fresh convic- tion to the mind of the reader, that the writer heartily wishes well to what he professes to discourage. Other periodicals, notably those emanating from Jesuit Colleges, breathed the same spirit of burning hate to everything, that Englishmen most value.
Joly the- His- Cretineau Joly, the Jesuit historian, informs us, that even during the time when the Order was suppressed by the Pope, the members, keeping up their organization in England, settled at Stonyhurst to " await more favourable times." With respect to the Jesuit Colleges in Ireland he writes : —
" The Jesuits have only been able to realise in that country good without renown ; good, without any of those social advan- tages with which the world believe them to be so much occupied; nevertheless they have never given up a country where all seems
Dominus ac condemned to despair. The Brief Dominus ac Redemptor having Redemptor. annihilated the Company of Jesus, the children of Loyola would not be discouraged like a flock of sheep because their shepherd had abandoned them. Rome had disbanded her best soldiers, on the very eve of the day when the Holy See was to be attacked on all sides at once. The Jesuits, while obeying the Pontifical Brief, did not believe it to be their duty to desert the post com- mitted to their charge. They, like the Irish, were poor ; but this destitution, which had its source in charity, did not disquiet them. They united themselves in indigence, and laboured together for the harvest which God had reserved f >r their zeal. They waited for happier days. Father Richard Callaghan, an old missionary from the Philippines, whose hand and tongue bore
Deaths of Callayhan and Betah. Ixi
traces of the martyrdom he had endured for the faith, directed
the secularized Jesuits. They could not found an Establishment
in Ireland to receive the young men, whom they hoped soon to
gather into their Order, whenever it should again arise from its
ruins. The College of Stonyhurst opened its bosom to receive stonyhurst.
some of them ; others went to Palermo, where they completed
their studies. In 1807, Richard Callaghan died, burdened with
years and good works. In 1811, the death of Thomas Betah
broke the last link which in Ireland attached the new scholars to
the ancient company. Betah, whose name is still popular in
Dublin and in Ireland, found in his heart that species of eloquence
which excites the natural instincts of this people in so lively a
manner. Father Kenny succeeded him in the month of
November. With a patience which nothing could overcome, the
Jesuits set themselves to work exactly as if the Sovereign Pontiff
had restored them to life.
" They felt the great disadvantages of that sort of cosmopolite education which, by displacing children from their country in their youth, gives them less of patriotic feeling. Ireland, accord- ing to them, had a right to see her children reared upon her own proscribed soil, in order that, nourished in her misfortunes, they might on some future day claim her emancipation with more energy. It was this thought that inspired Father Kenny* with the Prof. Kenny, project of forming a national college, and he did create one at
Clongowes, not far from Dublin It was necessary to ciongowea
raise the Irish from the state of moral debasement in which it College, was the policy of England to keep them. To this people the great voice of Daniel O'Connell, a pupil of the Jesuits, first taught the meaning of liberty." f
By teaching the young to look back on the rebels of past ages, as on men worthy of all praise and imitation, an attempt is made, and only too successfully, to keep alive an undying antagonism
* Father Kenny was one of the earliest professors after the foundation of Maynooth.
f " Poor Gentlemen of Liege :" being the History of the Jesuits in England and Ireland for the last sixty years, translated from their own historian, Cretineau Joly. London, J. F. Shaw & Co., 43, Paternoster Row, pp. 91—93.
Ixii College Training of Irish Student*.
between the different portions of the United Kingdom. This is done, that the cause, which the Jesuits have in view may always find instruments, and an opportunity for achieving their ends. Little do they care if these instruments, which they provide for the furtherance of their own plans, sometimes work useless mis- chief to the commonwealth in which they may happen to live, hut of which they really form no part. Take for an example of student the training constantly applied to the excitable Irish student, Training. ^^ language as that used respecting Irish rebels :*-
"Nothing in the natural order tends so much to exalt the CariowCollege young of a nation, or more effectually helps to lift them above Magazine. pursuits either simply ' of the earth earthy/ or else vile and degrading, and to preserve them on the road to true and honour- able independence of spirit, as the examples of the heroes of history, — 'above all, of the good and brave of Fatherland. As the young heir of a noble house, while he scans with beaming eye the records of ancestral fame, is stimulated to a rivalry in worthy deeds, so the young men of a Nation, while perusing the sacred pages that are blurred by the sorrows, and illumined by the glory of their countrymen, are wooed by their charms ; and incited to go and do like those whose names are treasured up in the story and the songs of their Native Land.
Incitements " Now to what page of Irish history can the writer refer his to crime. C0untrymen for brighter examples of every virtue that goes to form the true patriot and the pure Christian hero, than to that which chronicles the events that have made Wexford a household word in a million homes, not only in Ireland, but on so many foreign shores ?
" Entranced by the native grace and dignity of the heroic characters which stand out on that page, enveloped in glory's sheeniest light ; and struck by the unfavourable circumstances which preceded and accompanied their unexpected development, we do not fear ' to speak of '98 ;' and, without a blush at the mention of her name, we would ask our readers to turn their tearful eyes on conquered Wexford with the executioner's hand tightly grasping her throat."
* Vide " Carlow College Magazine" for December, 1862 ; p. 37f>.
Irish abuse of British Statesmen. Ixiii
Again, at page 379, we read : —
" He must therefore be a bold, if not an unscrupulous, writer, Abuse, who can dare in periodical, or daily literature, to lecture, or censure, Irishmen for recalling to mind the perfidy and cruelty of British statesmen — the Pitts and Castlereaghs of infamous memory — or for giving thankful expression to the feelings necessarily evoked by such recollections ; for declaring that the injustice of the past must be repaired, and the traces of a bygone savagery be wiped out ; that the last chains, in which the heartless exterminators of the Celtic race, bound our manhood, must be broken in pieces, and this holy island be inhabited once again — free from social, political, and religious outrage — free from the immoral, absolute dominion of eight thousand feudal lordlings — a dominion obtained by crime or purchase, under the sanction of British law, and maintained by more than forty thousand British bayonets."
Praise is awarded by this organ of education to every writer who recalls the worthy deeds of former rebels and assassins, per- formed out of love to their "Faith," and " Country," and "People." "In so doing," we are informed, " he but portrays the valorous deeds of Irish martyrs ; and casts, in much gratitude, a lover's wreath on the tomb, wherein worth and honour lie sleeping, whilst he tries by such endearments to improve and to elevate the young Irishmen, who have succeeded as well to the heritage of their woes as of their fame."
While the youth of the Irish people are thus trained by the Irish moral active and skilful agents of the Great Secret Society, is it any wonder that Ireland has been what she is : that her sons neglect useful labour, or, to use the high-sounding language, we have just quoted, " are effectually lifted above pursuits either simply ' of the earth earthy,' or else vile and degrading" ? Thus are men's minds warped from their youth. The Jesuits have laboured to destroy in their too apt scholars all moral sense, and to inculcate blind obedience to the wishes of those, who may for the time assume the mastery over them.
The real criminals, who are responsible in the sight of God and man for such crimes as that of O'Farrell, are those secret underminecs of true morality, who train men for their own
Ixiv The Society's teaching.
purposes, and send them forth ready instruments for any desperate deed.
The attempt Though direct evidence of Jesuit participation in the attempt to assassin- f.0 assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh be wanting, yet that they
ate Duke of ° o> J ^ J
Edinburgh, were in some way connected with the dastardly deed is suggested by the following letter, which was intercepted by the Australian police, and read in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, April 18th, 1868. The writer is Father Shiel, Spiritual Director to the appointed assassin :—
"FRANCISCAN CONVENT,
" WEXFORD, IRELAND.
" July 31, 1867.
" MY DEAR HENRY, — It was only yesterday I received yours, April 26. Go at once to Adelaide and present yourself to the Vicar- General, to whom I have written ; your best place will be with the Jesuits, who will treat you with every kindness and attention suitable to your position. I am delighted to find that you have yielded to the promptings of Divine Grace. May Mass & bless- God grant you perseverance. I will offer the Holy Sacrifice for err f01'u y°u' ^^ y°urse^ under the protection of the B. Virgin, who will obtain for you a renewal of the spirit of your vocation. I presume that you are in a position to pay something for your maintenance ; in any case go at once to Adelaide. May God bless you, my dear Henry, and believe me yours very sincerely in Christ, " L. B. SHIEL.
" Show this letter to the Vicar-General of Adelaide. " H. J. O'FARRELL, Emerald Hill."
The assassin Taking this letter in connexion with the assertion of O'Farrell, the dupe of faat he was personally an unwilling actor in the wretched tragedy, which has rendered his memory infamous — we refer to O'FarrelPs repeated assertion, that he was a member of a conspiracy (we are aware that a document appeared after O'Farrell's execution, with his signature, as a sort of dying confession, to a contrary
The Jesuits as instigators to crime. Ixv
effect ; but this document we disbelieve, as did the cbief of the Sydney Police), — taking, then, this assertion of O'Farrell's in connection with Father Shell's aspiration for his perseverance, and the fact that O'Farrell was directed by him to " be with the Jesuits" in Australia; we cannot avoid the conclusion, that there was some connection between this notorious Fenian criminal and the Jesuits.
Ixvii
CONNECTION
OF THE
PRESENT WITH THE PAST.
The French have a saying, " Commengons par le commence- ment," and such is undoubtedly the natural course for the student of history, but ordinary readers and politicians have not in these hurried days time to trace the history of the Jesuits, scattered as their agency and operations have been throughout the world, down from the formal institution of the Order 300 years ago. Our object is merely to furnish our readers with a " Glimpse " of the Great Secret Society, as at present in operation. In order to explain the manifestations of this conspiracy and its policy, we are compelled to reverse the ordinary course of study, and to trace its history chronologically backwards. The part of this Work which follows was published in 1868. We have seen no reason to believe, that the glimpse that it affords of the operations of the Great Secret Society, up to that period, conveys anything incon- sistent with an accurate perception of the subject ; and in this belief we are confirmed by the prudent abstinence from all comment upon this work, which the Ultramontane journals and periodicals of this country have observed.
Ixviii
A GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT SECRET SOCIETY
UP TO 1868.
Charles Sauvestre.
policy.
IN a recent work by M. Charles Sauvestre, an eminent French the attention of the world has been called to the action of the Great Secret Society, at the present time. He introduces the subject in the following forcible language : —
" Imagine an association, whose members have snapped all the ties of family and country that bound them to their fellow-men ; and whose united efforts have been directed to the one only and formidable object — that of developing its own power, and estab- lishing its domination by every possible means over all the nations of the world.
Real Jesuit "Imagine further that this immense conspiracy had ended by substituting its rules and its policy in the place of even the pre- cepts of religion ; that it had thus succeeded in obtaining the mastery over the princes of the Church, and in holding them in real, though not avowed, slavery — in such a way that those who bear official titles, and incur responsibility, are only docile instruments of a power which is concealed and silent.
" Such are the Jesuits.
" Banished unceasingly, they unceasingly find their way back : and little by little, secretly, they establish themselves, strongly root- ing themselves in darkness. Their property may be confiscated ; before long their losses are repaired. They attend, at the same time, to the wheedling of the people out of their inheritances, and to a widely extended system of commerce. Confessors, merchants, usurers, traffickers in pious toys, they invent new devotions in order to create for themselves new sources of revenue. Mean- while they mix themselves up with politics, disturb kingdoms, and make princes tremble on their thrones. Hatred. " For their hate is terrible. Woe to him who becomes their
Vitality.
Religions Associations suppressed in France, in 1792. Ixix
enemy ! By a strange coincidence, which they impiously call the
favour of heaven, specially shown on their hehalf, whoever
has placed obstacles in their way, though he has been at the
very height of greatness, has fallen suddenly as though struck
down. Henry IV., ' the only king whose memory the people Henry IV.
have revered,' meets with three assassins, one after the other, and
dies by the knife of a fanatic, at the very moment when he when to
is going to attack Austria, the government favoured by the stnke-
Jesuits. Clement XIV., a Pope! suppresses the Jesuits and dies
soon after in agony.
" At this moment the Jesuits are again established among us in spite of edicts and laws. As of old, they have re-opened their colleges, and endeavour to fashion our youth after their own mind.
" Their Society grows in riches and in influence by all sorts of methods ; and nothing is able to stay its progress ; for everywhere it finds men disposed to serve it in order to obtain by its means some advantage of place or rank." *
"Religious associations and communities were suppressed in Suppression, France absolutely by a decree of the Assemblee Nationale, passed on the 13th February, 1790 ; confirmed by another decree of 18th August, 1792. The property which had been given to them was restored at that time to the nation, and was sold. The monks and nuns returned to ordinary life ; a great number were married, and embraced civil professions. Indeed, monasteries and convents disappeared completely from the face of the country.
" Now, according to the last statistical report, these congregations are more numerous at the present day, than before the Revolution, and it was only in 1808 that their reconstitution was begun to be authorised. They have, therefore, in the space of sixty years, reconquered the lost ground, and more than that.
" These communities form at this moment in France a force of one hundred and eight thousand persons.
"Public opinion is excited by so rapid a development. There is Kapid deve- in this a great fact, of which it behoves us to seek the causes and foresee the consequences. The monasteries and convents, not
* " Introduction aux Instructions Secretes des Jesuites," Par Charles Sauvestre. E. Dentu, Palais Royal, Paris, 1803.
Ixx Influence of the Jesuits on Education,
only draw into them the youth of the country, they lay hold also of the inheritance ; and the property which enters these houses never leaves them any more.
" Moreover, we cannot pass over in silence the usurpation of education by these religious corporations. It is enough to recall Leibnitz, the profound assertion of Leibnitz : ' He who is master of the education is able to change the face of the world.' *
" The least clear-sighted will perceive, that we treat here of a matter of public interest of the highest importance.
"The 'Ancien Regime/ though it was entirely devoted to reli- gion, did not think fit to leave the monks without some check. Taught by experience, the monarchy had established severe laws to restrain and direct the rising tide of monkery. Important " Is modern society defenceless ? Has it no laws which can
questions to protec£ ft against this communism of celibates ? Or, shall we say guardians. r
that every law of that kind is to be rejected as a restraint on individual liberty ?
" These are questions well worthy of examination. There is no need for us to remark here, that our only purpose is to address ourselves to those who are the supreme judges, the public ; we have no title to make laws or regulations. . . . We address ourselves particularly to those, who have any guardianship or authority ; to fathers of families ; to the magistrates, who administer the laws ; to the lawgivers who make them, and who represent the living reason of the country." f
^ 1761. The following pages contain the Speech and Report, made in the
year 1761, to the Parliament of Bretagne, by the Attorney- General, M. de la Chalotais, who had been ordered to investigate the constitution of the Society of Jesus, and report the result of his investigations. Some persons may think it unnecessary to re- produce these documents at the present day, and to publish them in the English language ; but if any one is of opinion, that the
* The description of the education, received and imparted by the Jesuits, given from page vi to xii of the supplemental commentary, which, forms part of the work, entitled " The Poor Gentlemen of Liege," to which wo elsewhere refer, is well worth attention. — " The Poor Gentlemen of Liege." John Shaw & Co., London. 1863.
t Preface to " Les Congregations Religieuses." Enquete par Charles Sauvestre. Achille Faure, 18, Rue Dauphine, Paris. 1867.
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great conspiracy against truth and human freedom, laid bare to the eyes of mankind in this able work, is a thing of the past, we cannot undeceive him more effectually than by referring him to the words, which we have just quoted ; and begging also his calm consideration of the force and meaning of the following extract, from a " brochure " of M. Charles Habeneck :—
" This party is everywhere to be found, not indeed with official Habeneck's power, but with a power that assumes an appearance of kindness." the°mocZ«s
" It does not strike ; it shows its smooth side.
"It does not assassinate; it stifles, it causes those who stand in its way to disappear mysteriously ; it never pardons its enemies, but it keeps following them with its implacable hate.
" These congregations have found their way into all departments, whether public or private ; they are everywhere, at your very side, and they entwine themselves around you without your knowing it.
" They do not occupy the places of highest importance, but they purchase the greatest part of the inferior offices, and in a bureaucracy like France, it is the holder of the inferior offices who hinders, or expedites matters, and ties the hands of superiors, who are often accomplices.
"One can understand, therefore, that this association, using for one purpose, magistrates and officials, is the origin at least of acts of partiality and injustice, and may hinder the action of the tribunals of justice.
" This Society is, besides, a political engine. Since 1859, all the electoral difficulties have arisen from this organisation, little felt in Paris, terrible in the Provinces. Only ask the prefects." *
Are the Jesuits, then, friends to freedom ? Let M. Gamier Pages M. Gamier answer : — " In every Italian town, as in every European nation, there was, during 1848, a general rising against the Company of Jesus ; whose interference in the domain of politics has never ceased to be of the most active kind. In the eyes of the people they exist whenever despotism exists, and disappear whenever liberty appears. , Auxiliaries of absolute kings, they are the adversaries of all pro- y gress. They maintain ignorance and oppose light. Devoted to
* Charles Habeneck, (Les Jesuites en 1861, brochure.) Chez Dentu a Paris.
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Doctrines of t lit; "Community."
the past, they are the enemies of the future ; so much so, that were it possible, they would even prevent time from advancing. They know but one law, one faith, and one morality. That law, faith, and morality, they call authority. To a superior they sub- mit life and conscience. To their order they sacrifice individuality. They are neither Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, nor Spaniards.
Jesuits only. They are not citizens of any country. They are Jesuits only. They have but one family, one fortune, and one end ; and all these are included in the word Community."*
The friends of the Secret Society, depicted in the following pages, will no doubt assert that the report made to the Parliament of Bretagne and to the king of France is inapplicable at the present time. But this denial will not serve their purpose. M. Charles Sauvestre, in the work already quoted, ably observes : —
Moral Code. " Every bad case may be denied, as these good fathers say. But can we in truth put any trust in the words of men, who teach that lying is permitted, provided it be useful ?
Intention. " A person may swear that he has not done a thing, although
he has done it really, if he means inwardly, that he did not do it on a certain day ; or before he was born ; or if he partly means some other like circumstance, without the words, which he uses, having any sense, that might be able to make it known. And this is very convenient under many circumstances, and is always very right, when it is necessary or useful for health, or honour, or well-being, "f
Unchangeable. We know, that the Jesuits are unchangeable in their doc- trines as in their system of existence. " Sint ut sunt aut non sint," was the reply of their General in answer to a proposal sent by the Great Council of France, in the year 1761, that the " Society of Jesus " might be modified in that kingdom. This proposal was made in a friendly spirit, at the recommendation of twelve French prelates, who had been commissioned to consider the Jesuit doctrines, after the Parliament of Paris had decreed the dissolution of the Order, in consequence of the disclosures during the trial of Lavalette's bankruptcy, which we shall presently notice.
* Quoted by the Morniny Star, April 19, 1861. f "Moral Works" of R. P. Sanchez, p. 2, b. iii., c. 6, No. 13.
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The king thought the Parliament too severe. A proposal 1761. was, therefore, made to the Pope and the General, that the Society should be modified, in order that it might not be dissolved. The haughty reply was, " They must remain as they are, or cease to Immutability, exist." This persevering adherence to their original Constitutions, since they were remodelled by Laynez, who succeeded Loyola, as Laynez. General of the Order, is the great peculiarity of the Jesuits. In this sense a Congregation of the Order, held on the 18th of October, 1820, at Rome, by its sixth decree confirmed in all essentials the ancient Constitutions, rules, and formularies of the Society. We derive this information from a most valuable commentary upon the sixth volume of Cretineau Joly's " History of the Jesuits," entitled " The Poor Gentlemen of Liege."*
To give any weight to the assertion, that Jesuitism is not what it was, or what it is here represented to be, it should be shown by their acts, that the Jesuits are changed. So far from there being any such change, however, Sauvestre points out their influence in France at the present time, in these words: "It is remarkable, that in proportion as their influence is extended over the parochial clergy, the manners of these clergymen have been seen to exhibit Jesuitism. The proofs of this are too numerous and too public for us to have any need to insist upon the fact ; we refer our readers to the law reports of recent date."
" It is sufficient to read their ' Secret Instructions/ in order to gecret In recognise the Jesuit spirit which has dictated them. Run through structions. the chapters : ' How to deal with widows and dispose of the pro- perty they possess.' 'How to provide that the children shall enter the convent or the cloister.' 'What ought to be recommended to the preachers and confessors of the great.' ' Of the method of making a pretence of despising riches.' Glance through them all — for they are all of importance — and then say, whether these rules are a dead letter ; whether they have ceased to look after old women; to lay their hands on inheritances; to rob children of their rights and freedom ; to intrigue with the great ; to cast their intrigue, weight into the political scale ; to labour, in short, for one only object, which is not the triumph of religion, but the triumph of
* "The Poor Gentlemen of Liege," page 60. John Shaw and Co., 48, Paternoster Row, London, 1863.
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Operations at home and abroad.
Political movements.
Poland.
La Suisse.
the Company of Jesus, and the establishment of its mastery over the world. ": The intrigues of the Jesuits and their attacks upon the form of government, which has existed in Great Britain since the Revolution of 1688, have been continuous. Ireland has always, according to their own historian, M. Cretineau Joly, been, the chief base of their operations against England.
The whole history of their operations, for the destruction of the constitutional form of government in Poland, before that unhappy country was partitioned, manifests the same irrecon- cilable hatred of national independence and freedom. Their attack upon the Republic of Switzerland, in 1847-8, is related in the diplomatic documents laid before the British parliament, and was attested by the declarations of Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, and by the despatches of Lord Clarendon.