But he condemned his Order to mediocrity.

No really great man in any department of human knowledge or activity has arisen in the Company of Jesus.

In course of time it became obvious to any one of independent character and original intellect that their ranks were not the place for him.

And if youths of real eminence entered it before they perceived this truth, their spirit was crushed.

The machine was powerful enough for good and evil; but it remained an aggregate of individual inferiorities.