OF THE JESUITS: FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR SOCIETY TO ITS SUPPRESSION THEIR MISSIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; THEIR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND LITERATURE; WITH THEIR REVIVAL BY ANDREW STEINMETZ, AUTHOR OF THE NOVITIATE," 66 THE JESUIT IN THE FAMILY." RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. To the Catholic, as well as to the Protestant world this book is offered as some enlightenment on that important subject-the abuse of the religious sentiment. It is a book of facts. The Jesuits themselves, Catholic historians, and Protestant writers, the most impartial, furnish the groundwork. The main subject is connected with the contemporaneous history of the world during the last three centuries, which is brought home to the present times of political unrest and revolutions-and yet hopeful withal. It is a history of Human Nature -errors, crimes, and retribution-political as well as 'religious”—and therefore, the book is impartial. Connected with no party whatever, my object has been to seek, and find, and boldly to express, the truth-such, at least, as it has appeared to me, after multitudinous consultations. For, intensely interested in the subject, 66 I have spared neither pains nor expense to collect such information on the subject as would enable me to put forth a decisive work, not only on the Jesuits, but the religious movement in general, which antagonised the South with the North of Europe. To every mind the history of the Jesuits presents subjects of interest. In their exploits, the churchman, the missioner, the preacher, the educator,-all who possess influence on the minds of men, may find hints and admonitions :-their industry and perseverance are models for all humanity. They laboured indefatigably, and received their reward in a world-encircling power. From first to last, they were never in obscurity. Like Minerva, sprung from the head of Jove, the Company of the Jesuits went forth from the brain of Ignatius, full-grown, ready for battle. In her infancy she was great-the world feared her when she won her position--the lust of conquest supervened—she exemplified the maxims of the very world which she went forth to reform-and dug the pit into which she fell, discarded by the popedom, for whose defence she was established. It has been my object to enable the reader to judge for himself in the facts which led to that consummation. I have not indulged in the usual vituperation of the Jesuits no animadversion will be found in this history unsupported by its fact. Neither have the apologists of |