d revolting--which Mr. Parkman has to tell us. So far as strict
fidelity to his subject would admit, he has had regard to the
sensibilities of his readers, and where he could neither hide nor
soften, he has contented himself with intimating and suggesting what it
would have been simply shocking for him to follow into further details.

With an acute skill in the reading of human nature, and a cosmopolitan
spirit of his own which identifies religious toleration and charity with
common sense, Mr. Parkman, in a few paragraphs crowded with facts and
philosophy, takes us into the inner organization of Jesuitism, indicates
the spring and aliment of its vitality, and explains to us how it
reconciles the abnegation of the will with the concentration of resolve
in obedience. Starting from Quebec as a centre of operation, and the
place where French supplies and Indian traders were brought into contact
in the spring of each year, the Fathers, following the direction of
their Provincial at home, through their Superior resident, Le Jeune,
radiated towards the dismal localities where each looked to live and
die, as the majority of them did. We ought to have their names before
us. The first six of them at Quebec were Le Jeune, Brebeuf, Masse,
Daniel, Davost, and De Noue. To these were added Buteux, Bressani,
Ragueneau, Chabanel, Garreau, Garnier, Lalemant, Jogues, Chaumonot, and
Vimont. Most of them were very young men, of noble lineage, and with the
finest prospects of worldly success had they sought the prizes of courts
and of civilized life. With few exceptions, they were not robust, but
delicate. Eight of them died under Indian torture. Not one of them
failed in purpose or in courage.

It is not possible for the pen of either Romanist or Protestant to make
a Jesuit a lovely or attractive object to a Protestant. The flaw, if not
the falsehood, in their claim to the loftiest homage, vitiates the
appeal of the disciples of Loyola to the profoundest regard of the human
heart, independently of the antipathies of creed. It is enough to know
that their fellow-Romanists of other orders share to the full the
sentiment of distrust towards them which no pleading in their defence
has weakened in the common Protestant mind. Their devotion, their
heroism, their stern constancy to the recognized principles of their
severe discipline, does not neutralize, even if it qualifies, the
persuasion, which has not lacked evidence to support it, that, in t