The Dominicans were rooted in the past; their dogmatism admitted of no compromise; they strove to rule by force.

There was therefore, at the outset, war between the kennels of the elder and the younger dogs of God in Spain.

Yet Jesuitism gained ground.

It had the advantage of being a native, and a recent product.

It was powerful by its appeals to the sensuous imagination and carnal superstitions of that Iberian-Latin people.