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The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

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whence no created agency or influence can set him<br />

free. <strong>The</strong> Fall defaced the image of God in which<br />

man was made; we say, defaced; it did not totally<br />

obliterate or extinguish it. Jesuitism, more terrible<br />

than the Fall, totally effaces from the soul of man<br />

the image of God. Of the "knowledge,<br />

righteousness, and true holiness" in which man was<br />

made it leaves not a tree. It plucks up by its very<br />

roots the moral constitution which God gave man.<br />

<strong>The</strong> full triumph of Jesuitism would leave nothing<br />

spiritual, nothing moral, nothing intellectual,<br />

nothing strictly and properly human existing upon<br />

the earth.<br />

Man it would change into the animal, impelled<br />

by nothing but appetites and passions, and these<br />

more fierce and cruel than those of the tiger.<br />

Society would become simply a herd of wolves,<br />

lawless, ravenous, greedy of each other's blood,<br />

and perpetually in quest of prey. Even Jesuitism<br />

itself would perish, devoured by its own progeny.<br />

Our earth at last would be simply a vast sepulcher,<br />

moving round the sun in its annual circuit, its<br />

bosom as joyless, dreary, and waste as are those<br />

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