A Candid History of the Jesuits

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A Candid History of the Jesuits has a preface which says it is the historic custom of the Church of Rome to enlist in its service monastic or quasi-monastic bodies in addition to the ordinary clergy. The preface says that in its hour of greatest need, at the very outbreak of the Reformation, the Society of Jesus was formed as one of these auxiliary regiments. The text says Xavier looked back with such contrition on his former fame as a runner that he tied cords round his legs until they bit into the flesh and caused a dangerous malady.

The text describes Pascal's fifth letter on how the Jesuits attenuate the obligation of fasting, and says a man may, on a fast-day, drink any quantity of wine, hippocras, or honey and water. The text says the birth of the German Empire coincided with the declaration of papal infallibility, and a strong agitation for the expulsion of the Jesuits arose.