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It seems due to the reader, as well as to myself, to explain-briefly at least-the intention which led to the production of the volume now put into his hands. Regarded by itself, this outline of the Life and Institute of Loyola would probably give rise to an entire misapprehension of my purpose.
It might be supposed that I had wished, at a moment or political and ecclesiastical commotion, to step forward and signalize my Protestant zeal, in an assault upon the ever to be dreaded "Society of Jesus." This is not the fact. I have little or no faith in the beneficial tendency of assaults upon particular systems, supposed to be of mischievous quality. Nor, even if, I might hope to render some service to Protestantism by attempting a direct attack upon its opponents, do I think that Jesuitism, in particular, could, at this time, substantiate its claim to be singled out as the most to be feared among the antagonists of truth. Although far from entertaining the belief that Jesuitism is about presently to disappear, I could not consent to give it a foremost place in the list of things especially formidable.
On the contrary, it is because Jesuitism is now, as I think, falling into its place among schemes that may be analyzed without alarm, and that may be treated, in all calmness, according to its merits, that I have selected it from among those institutes which are still extant, and likely to subsist a while, and to exert some dying influence, although they be hastening to their end. The same might be said, at this time, of all those products of the middle ages, or of the season of convulsion which brought the medieval era to a close; namely, that, as things about to "vanish away." they offer themselves as fit objects of tranquil and instructive contemplation.
So far as it may be possible, in a comprehensive manner, to compare our own times with past ages, a difference presents itself which is h…
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