But a patent equivocation lurks under this phrase 'unrivaled.' Education must be considered with regard to the utility of the State.

'Now the education of the Jesuits consists in stripping the pupil of every obligation to his father, to his country, and to his natural prince; in diverting all his love and fear toward a spiritual superior, on whose nod, beck and word he is dependent.

This system of training is useful for the supremacy of ecclesiastics and for such secular governments as they are ready to submit to; and none can deny that the Jesuits are without equals in their employment of it.

Yet in so far as it is advantageous in such cases, so also is it prejudicial to States, the end whereof is liberty and real virtue, and with whom the ecclesiastical faction remains in bad accord.

From the Jesuit colleges there never issued a son obedient to his father, devoted to his country, loyal to his prince.