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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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