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tinctly encourage concealment by allowing ambiguity , evasion , and equivocation . Its policy is devious , disingenuous , and thoroughly secret in character . Its system of discipline rests on the secret information of spies within its own body . Its whole method of training is eminently calculated to engender secretiveness , dissimulation , distrust , and self-deception . From all these

circumstances , therefore , it is perfectly clear that the Jesuit Order is essentially a secret society in the worst sense of the term . My task is now ended . I have , as I submit , conclusively proved the accuracy of my statement , that charges like those made by the Bishop against Freemasonry may be brought with perfecf justice against Jesuitism . Its history shows that it has been a vast and formidable conspiracy against

established governments , freedom of conscience , ancl intellectual progress . Its danger lies not only in its aims but also in the boldness of conception , unity of action , tenacity of purpose , unscrupulousness as to means , recklessness of consequences , ancl consummate astuteness , with which they have been prosecuted . To effect the overthrow of heretical rulers , subjects were taught doctrines

which undermined the constitutional authority of the Crown . They were incited to rebellion ancl even to regicide . Treasonable plots were hatched , thrones shaken ancl lost , ancl m ' onarchs assassinated . The logical result of Jesuit teaching is the modern revolution . The Jesuits constituted so grave a danger to the State that they were expelled from nearly every country in Europe , and then- Order dissolved by the Pope himself , on whose behalf they

laboured . In many countries , however , they succeeded , notwithstanding their repeated proscription , in virtually usurping the government by means of the influence which they enjoyed as the confessors of royalty . Furthermore , in order to effect the destruction of' religious ancl intellectual liberty , all Protestant doctrines , and all scientific facts or theories which savoured of heterodoxy , were utterly condemned ancl prohibited . For those who remained true to

Rome the Order forged new fetters . It humoured their weaknesses and passions , and appealed to their bigotry and superstition . It strove to monopolise the instruction in schools ancl colleges . It taught false history , false philosophy , ancl false morality , ancl kept the intellect of millions in leadingstrings .

By the force of an enlightened public opinion , and by social and political changes , the Society has been compelled , in some degree , to modify its policy . Its aims , however , remain the same , and are pursued as resolutely as ever . What its future may be , it is impossible to foretell ; but as long as it exists it must always constitute a real danger to the State ancl to society . While we must admire its zeal , its self-devotion , and its profound knowledge of human frailty , we cannot but regret that its virtues ancl its talents should have been so fatally misapplied . NEMESIS .

II . Sir , —There appeared in your columns of the 2 nd instant an article signed " Nemesis , " full of invectives against the Society of Jesus . I do not intend to lose my time by refuting all those old imputations and calumnies of past centuries that have been copied now again from a Nivolini or such like author

they have been refuted more than sufficiently . However , I challenge the compiler of that article to prove the first of those false ancl dangerous doctrines wherewith he charges the Society of Jesus from any of the authors he quotes . He says : — " Busenbaum , Layman , Escobar , Illsung , Voit , and Gury have laid down the dangerous proposition expressed in the well-known formula : ' The end justifies the means . ' " Let him show in what terms and in what chapter of their works these authors teach such a doctrine or lay down that dangerous