He only perceived a difference in the degrees of their noxiousness to Europe.

Thus, 'the worst Spaniard is better than the least bad of the Jesuits' (vol.i.p.

212).] [Footnote 158: Study of the Jesuits must be founded on _Institutum Societatis Jesu_, 7 vols.

Avenione; Orlandino, _Hist.Soc.

Jesu_; Cretineau-Joly, _Histoire de la Compagnie de Jesus_; Ribadaneira, _Vita Ignatii_; Genelli's Life of Ignatius in German, or the French translation; the Jesuit work, _Imago Primi Saeculi_; Ranke's account in his _History of the Popes_, and the three chapters assigned to this subject in Philippson's _La Contre-Revolution Religieuse_.