The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

maxims endow the Jesuit cannot be made larger, its
particular applications may nevertheless be made
more pointed, and the man who holds back from
using it in all its extent may be emboldened,
despite his remaining scruples, or the dullness of
his intellectual perceptions, to avail himself to the
utmost of the advantages it offers, "for the greater
glory of God." He is to be taught, not merely by
general rules, but by specific examples, how he
may sin and yet not become sinful; how he may
break the law and yet not suffer the penalty.
But, further, these sons of Loyola are the kings
of the world, and the sole heirs of all its wealth,
honors, and pleasures; and whatever law, custom,
sacred and venerable office, august and kingly
authority, may stand between them and their
rightful lordship over mankind, they are at liberty
to throw down and tread into the dust as a vile and
accursed thing. The moral maxims of the Jesuits
are to be put in force against kings as well as
against peasants.
The lawfulness of killing excommunicated, that
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