History Fall of the Jesuits in the Eighteenth Century: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint)

Alexis de Saint-Priest

ISBN 10: 0266275540 / ISBN 13: 9780266275541

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2019

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• Titolo: History Fall of the Jesuits in the Eighteenth Century: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0266275540
• ISBN 13: 9780266275541
• Rilegatura: HRD
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 483 grammi

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French school of philosophy, but strangers even to its tenets. The causes which struck at Jesuitism, and occasioned its overthrow, in all the plenitude of undisputed power, were wholly local, and of a private and personal nature: whilst, to crown the general astonishment, the vast and powerful body, whose arms extended (as has been often said) to regions till lately unexplored - this universal colony of Rome, an object of dread to all, and feared even in the very seat of its power received its first blow, not from any great potentate, nor upon any of the principal theatres of Europe, but in one ofits ex treme corners, and in one of the weakest and most isolated of its kingdoms.

This blow was struck in Portugal, an event which would indeed excite our surprise, if we considered only the power which the Order possessed in that country, ruling both monarch and people, the throne and the altar; but if we regard the excess and abuse of that power which itself tended to endanger its durability, and recall the circumstances which, fortuitously or not, are connected with the introduction of the Jesuits into the Court of Lisbon, our surprise will lessen, and we may find cause to reverse our opinion. They had undoubtedly rendered some partial services to Portugal, and added new and profitable subjects to the realm; in China and in the Indies they had extended the renown of the Portuguese name by their mis sionary labours, crowned, as they were, by martyrdom. But at the same time it must be remembered that the establishment. Of this society coincides with the decline of the Portuguese monarchy. Unhappily for Portugal, the Jesuits entered the country at the very time that a foreign influence was introduced, and the decay of the monarchy was rapid and even instantaneous. Though opposed to the testimony of almost all historians, we are disinclined to attribute this circumstance to the Jesuits we remark only that it was unfortunate for them to have been the active witnesses of the event. Right or wrong, responsibility attaches to those who exercise power; and it cannot be denied that in Portugal the Jesuits exercised sovereign power unin terruptedly for two centuries - from 1540 to 1750.

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