He will be secured for the sacred ends of our Society, and will contribute to the greater glory of God .-- It was thus that the Jesuit labyrinth of casuistry, with its windings, turnings, secret chambers, whispering galleries, blind alleys, issues of evasion, came into existence; the whole vicious and monstrous edifice being crowned with the saving virtue of obedience, and the theory of ends justifying means.

After the irony of Pascal, the condensed rage of La Chalotais, and the grave verdict of the Parlement of Paris (1762), it is not necessary now to refute the errors or to expose the abominations of this casuistry in detail.[174] Yet it cannot be wholly passed in silence here; for its application materially favored the influence of Jesuits in modern Europe.
[Footnote 174: Having mentioned the names of these illustrious Frenchmen, I feel bound to point out how accurately their criticism of the Jesuits was anticipated by Paolo Sarpi.

His correspondence between the years 1608 and 1622 demonstrates that this body of social corrupters had been early recognized by him in their true light.

Sarpi calls them 'sottilissimi maestri in mal fare,' 'donde esce ogni falsita et bestemmia,' 'il vero morbo Gallico,' 'peste pubblica,' 'peste del mondo' (_Letters_, vol.i.pp.

142, 183, 245, ii.