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The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

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<strong>The</strong>y encourage cheats, frauds, purloinings,<br />

robberies, by furnishing men with a ready<br />

justification of these misdeeds, and especially by<br />

persuading their votaries that if they will only take<br />

the trouble of doing them in the way of directing<br />

the intention according to their instructions, they<br />

need not fear being called to a reckoning for them<br />

hereafter. <strong>The</strong> Jesuit Emmanuel Sa teaches "that it<br />

is not a mortal sin to take secretly from him who<br />

would give if he were asked;" that "it is not theft to<br />

take a small thing from a husband or a father;" that<br />

if one has taken what he doubts to have been his<br />

own, that doubt makes it probable that it is safe to<br />

keep it; that if one, from an urgent necessity, or<br />

without causing much loss, takes wood from<br />

another man's pile, he is not obliged to restore it.<br />

One who has stolen small things at different times,<br />

is not obliged to make restitution till such time as<br />

they amount together to a considerable sum. But<br />

should the purloiner feel restitution burdensome, it<br />

may comfort him to know that some Fathers deny<br />

it with probability.[13]<br />

<strong>The</strong> case of merchants, whose gains may not be<br />

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