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[77] Ibid. vol. i, p. 408.

[78] Inst.i.tute, vol. i, p. 373.

[79] Ibid, vol. i, p. 408.

[80] ”Filiis suis, ut convenit, compati noverit.”--Inst.i.tutum Const., Pars IX, vol. ii, c. i, p. 4.

”Conferet sec.u.m viros, qui consilio polleant, habere, quorum opera in iis quae statuenda sunt . . . uti possit.”--Ibid., vol. i, p. 425.

[81] ”Vir sit (generalis) . . . in omni virtutum genere exemplum . . . ac _praecipue_ in eo _splendor charitatis_ . . . sit conspicuus.”--Inst.i.tutum Const., vol. i, p. 135.

”Advertendum quod primo in _charitate ac dulcedine_, qui peccant, sunt admonendi.”--Ibid. vol. i, p. 375.

[82] ”Conferet etiam, circ.u.mspecte et ordinate prec.i.p.aere . . . ita ut subditi se potius ad _dilectionem_ majorem quam ad timorem suorum superiorem possint componere.”--Ibid., vol. i, p. 426.

”Ut in spiritu _amoris_ et non c.u.m perturbatione timoris procedatur, curandum est.”--Ibid., vol. i, p. 407.

[83] ”Juret unusquisque, priusquam det (_suffragium_) quod eum nominat, quem sent.i.t in Domino magis idoneum.”--Ibid., vol. i, p. 431.

[84] ”Si accidiret ut valde negligens vel remissus esset, &c. . . . tunc enim coadjutor vel vicarius qui generalis officio fungatur, est eligendus.”--Inst.i.tutum Const., vol. i, p. 439.

[85] ”Habet ergo societas c.u.m praeposito generali (et idem c.u.m inferioribus fieri possit) aliquem qui accedens ad Deum in oratione, postquam divinam bonitatem consulerit et aequum esse id judicaverit, c.u.m modestia debita ac humilitate, quid sentiat in ipso praeposito requiri ad majus obsequium et gloriam Dei, admonere teneatur.”--Ibid., Pars IX, c. iv, n. 4, p. 439.

[86] See Part IX, chap. iv, of the Const.i.tutions, ent.i.tled ”De auctoritate vel providentia quam Societas habere debet erga praepositum Generalem,” vol.

i, p. 439.

[87] Ibid.

[88] ”Erit etiam summi momenti, ut perpetu felix societatis status conservetur, diligentissime ambitionem, malorum omnium in quavis republica vel congregatione matrem submovere.”--Inst.i.tutum Const., vol. i, p. 446.

”Qui autem de ambitione hujusmodi convictus esset, activo et pa.s.sivo suffragio privetur, ut inhabilis ad eligendum alium (generalem), et ut ipse eligatur.”--Ibid., vol. i, p. 430.

[89] Inst.i.tutum Const., vol. i, p. 490.

[90] Inst.i.tutum Const., vol. i, p. 422.

[91] When Dr. Priestley went to Paris, to enjoy personally the happy improvement of human affairs, at the conclusion of the eighteenth century, the glorious star of reason was culminating. He was known to be a materialist, consequently very naturally taken for an atheist, or at least a naturalist, if I may use the expression, and the arms of the fraternity were open to receive a man so highly distinguished for his chemical discoveries. They eagerly entered into discourse with one, who had denied man a soul, and, after pouring forth their own sublime theories of eternal sleep and energies of nature, they gave him a pause to utter _his_ sublimities; and presently the room echoed with laughter and information that the doctor _believes: Le docteur croit, le docteur Priestley croit_.

Some, who had not heard the conversation, ran to inquire what he believed.

_Comment! croit-il l'immortalite de l'ame? Point de tout; il convient que l'homme n'a point d'ame. Bien! que croit-il donc? Il croit, l'immortalite du corp. Que diable! quelle bizarerie! Mais, chez docteur, expliquez nous cela_. The doctor discoursed on matter, and necessity, and of Jesus Christ as a mere man. Finding that he believed _something_ their astonishment was great; and, for some time, _le docteur croit_ was a bye-word.

[92] Genie du Christianisme, tom. viii.

[93] By his edicts on this subject, the youth of France were to be brought up at his schools throughout the empire; these schools, in every town and village, were all dignified with the appellation of university, the masters of which were appointed by the princ.i.p.al of the school at Paris, and to be under his control. The mathematics and a military spirit were ordered to be the chief things attended to: all boys, of whatever age, wore uniforms and immense cornered hats.

[94] A writer in the Times, cited in the Quarterly Review of Oct. 1811, p.

302.

[95] The Jansenistical apostate monk, Le Courayer, alleges a powerful motive to enforce this doctrine: it is this; ”By destroying the credit and reputation of the Jesuits, Rome must be subverted: and when this is once effected, Religion will reform itself.”--_Hist. du Conc. de Trente, ed.

d'Amsterdam_, 1751, p. 63.