"There are three ways in which one may accompany the course of progress: in front of, beside, or behind it.

The first guide it, the second suffer themselves to be carried along with it, and the last are dragged after it and to these last the Jesuits belong.

They would like to direct it, but as they see that it is strong and has other tendencies, they capitulate, preferring to follow rather than to be crushed or left alone among the shadows by the wayside.

Well now, we in the Philippines are moving along at least three centuries behind the car of progress; we are barely beginning to emerge from the Middle Ages.

Hence the Jesuits, who are reactionary in Europe, when seen from our point of view, represent progress.