There was also a subordinate institution for the education of the sons of nobles.

These colleges afforded models for similar schools throughout Europe; some of them intended to supply the society with members, and some to impress the laity with Catholic principles.

Uniformity was an object which the Jesuits always held in view.
They did not meet at first with like success in all Catholic countries.
In Spain, Charles V.treated them with suspicion as the sworn men of the Papacy; and the Dominican order, so powerful through its hold upon the Inquisition, regarded them justly as rivals.

Though working for the same end, the means employed by Jesuits and Dominicans were too diverse for these champions of orthodoxy to work harmoniously together.

The Jesuits belonged to the future, to the party of accommodation and control by subterfuge.