In the mean time how is it possible to conduct one's self otherwise with the people so long as they are people?
For my own part, to myself I shall always be a philosopher, but in dealing with the mass of mankind, I shall be a priest." "A little jargon," says Geogory Nazianzen to St.Jerome (Hieron.ad.

Nep.) "is all that is necessary to impose on the people.

The less they comprehend, the more they admire.
Our forefathers and doctors of the church have often said, not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity dictated to them." "We endeavor," says Sanchoniaton, "to excite admiration by means of the marvellous." (Proep.Evang.lib.

3.) Such was the conduct of all the priests of antiquity, and is still that of the Bramins and Lamas who are the exact counterpart of the Egyptian priests.

Such was the practice of the Jesuits, who marched with hasty strides in the same career.