The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

profit than merit in the deed; inasmuch as, done to
the Order of Jesus, they are sure to be repaid with
most substantial services; whereas, done to the
other orders, they will have nothing in return for
their pains "but a song."[10]
To love their neighbor, and speak well of him,
while they held themselves in lowly estimation,
was not one of the failings of the Jesuits. Their own
virtues they were to proclaim as loudly as they did
the faults of their brother monks. Their Instructions
commanded them to "imprint upon the spirits of
those princes who love us, that our order is more
perfect than all other orders." They are to supplant
their rivals, by telling monarchs that no wisdom is
competent to counsel in the affairs of State but
"ours," and that if they wish to make their realms
resplendent with knowledge, they must surrender
the schools to Jesuit teachers. They are especially
to exhort princes that they owe it as a duty to God
to consult them in the distribution of honors and
emoluments, and in all appointments to places of
importance. Further, they are ever to have a list in
their possession of the names of all persons in
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