The-papacy-its-history-dogmas-genius-and-prospects-wylie

;COMPACT BETWEEN JESUITISM AND ABSOLUTISM. 501both parties clearly perceive. Accordingly, the Jesuit!?,whom the revolutionary outbreak of 1848 had driven away,have been recalled, and a virtual compact entered into withthem. Lend us your power, say the Jesuits, and we willgive you our wisdom. We will save the vessel of the state,only we must sit at the helm. And at the helm they do sit.The Jesuits are at this moment the real rulers of Europeand from the one end of it to the other they pursue thesame object, and act upon the same tactics. Their schemeof reconquering Europe by the pretence of reform havingcome to nought, they have been compelled to fall back upontheir ancient and approved method of rule,—open, undisguisedforce. Europe is at present under the governmentof the sabre. This is the Jesuit prescription for curing it ofits madness. The first object of the Jesuits is to abrogatethe liberties which the Revolution of 1848 inaugurated.They know that liberty and Protestantism are twin powers,—that the alliance between despotism and Popery is nowof a thousand years standing,—and that the papal supremacyis incompatible with the order of things introduced bythe Revolution, more especially with universal suffrage anda free press. The first requisites, therefore, to the restorationof their power is the suppression of the rights of 1848.They dare not by edict proclaim these rights null and void,but they provisionally abrogate them. The violence of themasses is the pretext alleged for placing the great cities andseveral whole king-doms of the Continent under martial law.It is of course intended by the Jesuits that this provisionalstate shall become the permanent and normal condition ofEurope. Thus they attempt insidiously to rivet their formerchains upon the nations.They are wise in their generation.history of Europe shows, that inA glance at the pastevery country in which theReformation advanced so far as to introduce constitutionalgovernment. Protestantism has kept its ground ;whereas inthose countries where the government was not reformed, whateverprogress the reformed religion had made, the people