The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie
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Chapter 4<br />
Moral Code of the <strong>Jesuits</strong>--<br />
probabilism, etc.<br />
WE have not yet surveyed the full and perfect<br />
equipment of those troops which Loyola sent forth<br />
to prosecute the war against Protestantism. Nothing<br />
was left unthought of and unprovided for which<br />
might assist them in covering their opponents with<br />
defeat, and crowning themselves with victory.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were set free from every obligation, whether<br />
imposed by the natural or the Divine law. Every<br />
stratagem, artifice, and disguise were lawful to men<br />
in whose favor all distinction between right and<br />
wrong had been abolished. <strong>The</strong>y might assume as<br />
many shapes as Proteus, and exhibit as many colors<br />
as the chameleon. <strong>The</strong>y stood apart and alone<br />
among the human race. First of all, they were cut<br />
off from country. <strong>The</strong>ir vow bound them to go to<br />
whatever land their General might send them, and<br />
to remain there as long as he might appoint. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
country was the society. <strong>The</strong>y were cut off from<br />
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