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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