The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

Fathers their patrons and defenders. The alchemists
of the Middle Ages boasted that their art enabled
them to operate on the essence of things, and to
change what was vile into what was noble. But the
still darker art of the Jesuits acts in the reverse
order; it changes all that is noble into all that is
vile. Theirs is an accursed alchemy by which they
transmute good into evil, and virtue into vice.
There is no destructive agency with which the
world is liable to be visited, that penetrates so deep,
or inflicts so remediless a ruin, as the morality of
the Jesuits. The tornado sweeps along over the
surface of the globe, leaving the earth naked and
effaced and forgotten in the greater splendor and
the more solid strength of the restored structures.
Revolution may overturn thrones, abolish laws, and
break in pieces the framework of society; but when
the fury of faction has spent its rage, order emerges
from the chaos, law resumes its supremacy, and the
bare as before tree or shrub beautified it; but the
summers of after years re-clothe it with verdure
and beautify it with flowers, and make it smile as
sweetly as before. The earthquake overturns the
dwelling of man, and swallows up the proudest of
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