a_, 236;
Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, 239;
the vows taken by Ignatius and his neophytes at Paris, 240;
their proposed mission to the Holy Land, 241;
their visits to Venice and Rome, 242 _sq._;
the name of the Order, 244;
negotiations in Rome, 245;
the fourth vow, 246;
the constitutions approved by Paul III., 247;
the Directorium of Lainez, 249;
the original limit of the number of members, _ib._;
Loyola's administration, 250;
asceticism deprecated, 251;
worldly wisdom of the founder, 253;
rapid spread of the Order, 254;
the Collegium Romanum, 255;
Collegium Germanicum, _ib._;
the Order deemed rivals by the Dominicans in Spain, _ib._;
successes in Portugal, 256;
difficulties in France, 257;
in the Low Countries, _ib._;
in Bavaria and Austria, 258;
Loyola's dictatorship, 259;
his adroitness in managing distinguished members of his Order, 260;
statistics of the Jesuits at Loyola's death, _ib._;
the autocracy of the General, 261;
Jesuit precepts on obedience, 263 _sq._;
addiction to Catholicism, 266;
the spiritual drill of the _Exercitia Spiritualia_, 267;
materialistic imagination, 268;
psychological adroitness of the method, 269;
position and treatment of the novice, 270;
the Jesuit Hierarchy, 271;
the General, 272;
five sworn spies to watch him, 273;
a system of espionage through the Order, 274;
position of a Jesuit, _ib._;
the Black Pope, 275;
the working of the Jesuit vow of poverty, 275 _sq._;
revision of the Constitutions by Lainez, 277;
the question about the _Monita Secreta_, 277 _sqq._;
estimate of the historical importance of the Jesuits, 280 _sq._;
their methods of mental tyranny, 281;
Jesuitical education, 282;
desire to gain the control of youth, 283;
their general aim the aggrandizement of the Order, 284;
treatment of _etudes fortes_, _ib._;
admixture of falsehood and truth, 285;
sham learning and sham art, 286;
Jesuit morality, 287;
manipulation of the conscience, 288;
casuistical ethics, 290;
system of confession and direction, 293;
political intrigues and doctrines, 294 _sqq._;
the theory of the sovereignty of the people, 296;
Jesuit connection with political plots, 297;
suspected in regard to the deaths of Popes, 298;
the Order expelled from various countries, 299 _n._;
relations of Jesuits to Rome, 299;
their lax morality in regard to homicide, 306 _n._, 314;
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