The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

Jesuits pointed as the monuments of the Divine
anger at the suppression of their Order. Despite the
bull of Clement, the Jesuits had neither ceased to
exist nor ceased to act. Amid the storms that shook
the world they were energetically active.
In revolutionary conventions and clubs, in warcouncils
and committees, on battle-fields they were
present, guiding with unseen but powerful touch
the course of affairs. Their maxim is, if despotisms
will not serve them, to demoralize society and
render government impossible, and from chaos to
remodel the world anew. Thus the Society of Jesus,
which had gone out of existence before the
Revolution, as men believed, started up in full
force the moment after, prepared to enter on the
work of moulding and ruling the nations which had
been chastised but not enlightened. Scarcely had
Pins VII returned to the Vatican, when, by a bull
dated August 7th, 1814, he restored the Order of
Jesus. Thaddeus Borzodzowsky was placed at their
head. Once more the brotherhood stalked abroad in
their black birettas. In no long time their colleges,
seminaries, and novitiates began to flourish in all
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