accept it--or even one hundred
thousand--unless it should appear more profitable not to close with such
an offer. How strong must his hope of plunder have been after four years
of continued disappointment and misery!

Moreover, he charged his successor, if it should please God to give him
any jewel or precious stone, not to omit sending it him, as some help in
his trouble, and he instructed him to form a settlement on the way to
Peru, either upon the Paraguay or elsewhere, from whence tidings of his
proceedings might be transmitted. Having left these directions Mendoza
embarked, still dreaming of gold and jewels. On the voyage they were so
distressed for provisions that he was obliged to kill a favorite bitch
which had accompanied him through all his troubles. While he was eating
this wretched meal his senses failed him--he began to rave, and died in
the course of two days.

FOOTNOTES:

[51] Charles I of Spain, who was also the emperor Charles V.

FOUNDING OF THE JESUITS

A.D. 1540

ISAAC TAYLOR

Toward the middle of the sixteenth century definite
utterance began to be given to a widespread feeling in the
Church that the old monastic orders were no longer
fulfilling their purpose. Suggestions of new orders were
entertained by the church authorities, and plans for their
formation--not to supersede but to supplement the old--began
to assume shape.

Meanwhile an enthusiastic Spanish soldier, who had renounced
the profession of arms, independently gathered about himself
the nucleus of what was to be one of the most famous orders
in the history of the Church. This organization, called the
Company (or Society) of Jesus, but better known to many as
the Order of Jesuits, owes its foundation primarily to
Ignatius de Loyola (Inigo Lopez de Recalde), who was born at
the castle of Loyola, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in 1491. After being
educated as a page at the court of Ferdinand, he joined the
army, and during his recovery from a wound received at
Pamplona in 1521, he became imbued with spiritual ardor and
dedicated himself to the service of the Virgin. Henceforth
the "fiery Ignatius" devoted himself to the pursuit and, as
he believed, the purification of religion.

In 1528 he entered the University of Paris, and there, with
a few associates, in 1534 he projected the new religious
order, which in 1540