It was seductive by its mitigation of oppressive orthodoxy and inflexible prescriptive law.

Where the Dominican was steel, the Jesuit was reed; where the Dominican breathed fire and fagots, the Jesuit suggested casuistical distinctions; where the Dominican raised difficulties, the Jesuit solved scruples; where the Dominican presented theological abstractions, the Jesuit offered stimulative or agreeable images; where the Dominican preached dogma, the Jesuit retailed romance.

It only needed one illustrious convert to plant the Jesuits in Spain.

Him they found in Francis Borgia, Duke of Gandia, Viceroy of Catalonia, and subsequently the third General of the Order and a saint.

This man placed the university, which he had founded, in their hands; and about the same time they gained a footing in the university of Salamanca.