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Excerpt from New Disquisition, Philosophical and Political, Concerning the Society of the Jesuits, and the Causes and Consequences of Their Destruction
That this society has had celebrity, is agreed on all hands. That it has performed a leading part in the schools, and on the theatre of almost every go vernment in Europe, is an incontestable fact, not denied either by its flatterers or slanderers. Its successes, its failures, the causes of its fall, become then fair and Open' field to the historian. Asto hished at the enormity of the charges preferred against it, I have carefully examined them with the authenticated annals of the nations in which they were accused. Having cleared away my doubts, and dissipated my suspicions; I cherished the pleas: ing conviction, that it would be useful and accept able to my countrymen, to communicate to them the genuine results ofthe enquiries I made for my own instruction. I shall speak as freely of the enemies of the Osociety as' of its advocates; I shall quote the testimony of kings, of the ministers of different so vereigns, of the learned of different nations, all tending to throw daylight upon its history and its importance. I shall examine with rigorous scrupu losity, the principal charges of accusation against' it, namely, regicide, ambition, avarice, and loose' morals, In awhrd, I shall close the disquisition by some observations upon the necessary consequences of its destruction 111 France and other countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
