The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

therefore, and go on to the ninth chapter, where we
find the scheme still widening, and wholesale
rapacity and extortion, sanctified of course by the
end in view, still more openly avowed and
enjoined. The chapter is entitled "Of the Means to
Augment the Revenues of our Colleges," and these
means, in short, are the astute and persistent
deception, circumvention, and robbery of every
class. The net is thrown, almost without disguise,
over the whole community, in order that the goods,
heritages, and possessions of all ranks--prince,
peasant, widow, and orphan--may be dragged into
the convents of the Jesuits. The world is but a large
preserve for the mighty hunters of the Society of
Jesus. "Above and before all other things," says
this Instruction, "we ought to endeavor our own
greatness, by the direction of our superiors, who
are the only judges in this case, and who should
labor that the Church of God may be in the highest
degree of splendor, for the greater glory of
God."[6]
In prosecution of this worthy end, the Secret
Instructions enjoin the Fathers to visit frequently at
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