Frankness in a Jesuit?
Come; what has the Society come to that frankness replaces cunning and casuistry?
Bah! There never was an age but had its prude to howl 'O these degenerate days!' Corrupt and degenerate you say?
Yes; that is the penalty of greatness, richness, and idleness.

It began with the Egyptians, it struck Rome and Athens; it strikes France to-day.

Yesterday we wore skins and furs, to-day silks and woolens, to-morrow.

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