Secret Instructions of the Jesuits: Printed Verbatim from the London Copy of 1725, to Which Is Prefixed an Historical Essay; With an Appendix of Notes, by the Editor of the Protestant - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... suitism is totally hostile, in all its doctrines, usages, members and associations. He who mentions an armed despotism against freedom, intelligence, and prosperity, names Jesuitism, which ever has been the inseparable companion of force and absolute power. Vallestigny, deputy of Alva, presented to Ferdinand, the present king of Spain, this address: " The I mass of the human family are born, not lo govern, but I to be governed. This sublime employment of governing, has been confided by providence to the privileged class, whom he has placed upon an eminence, to which the multitude cannot rise without being lost in the labyrinth and snares which are therein found." This is the doctrine of Jesuitism; and its most active and undisguised organ, thus advised royalty in France and Spain: "Never embark upon the stormy sea of deliberative assemblies; nor surrender your absolute character and authority." Agreeably to this dogma; the Jesuits proscribe general, instruction, because it is too favorable to the progress of intelligence among the people. They maintain, that public tuition should be remitted entirely to the Romish clergy for boys, and to Nuns for girls. They affirm, that the liberty of the press is Pandora's box, and the source of all evil. They denounce vaccination, as too favorable to population. They de- sire that the people should be less numerous and less I instructed. They wish that all the feudal systems should be restored, that they may partake of its absolute power--and they would make Romanism the basis of society, that its worship and its priests may be supported. Thus Jesuitism is the sworn enemy of the progress of light and liberty--it claims entire despotism and unrestricted empire. Popery, and especially Jesuitism, by the instrumentality of the Pr...
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