Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dr. Berg's Lecture on the Jesuits: A Lecture Delivered in the Musical Fund Hall, on Monday Evening, December 23d, 1850, on the Jesuits
If the Scriptural text, By their fruits ye shall know them, be as faithful a test as all men of sound heart and mind hold it to be, then are the whole mechanism, and nature, and operation of the practical in?uence of Jesuitism, world-confessed abominations. The per sonal history of Loyola is a confirmation of the maxim that truth is even stranger than fiction; that the realities of history may at times be more wonderful than the vagaries of man. In the present instance, however, it must be admitted that'the sources of our information are not of the most reliable character. The biographers of Loyola are generally persons more or less tinged with the cold fanaticism which he instituted, as their prin ples allow them a large margin in which to embellish their narrative; and the candid inquirer will be fre quently constrained to pause, and doubt, and say with the Roman, credit Judas.
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