Before the Order had existed a hundred years, it had filled the whole world with memorials of great things done and suffered for the faith.

No religious community could produce a list of men so variously distinguished:--none had extended its operations over so vast a space; yet in none had there ever been such perfect unity of feeling and action.

There was no region of the globe, no walk of speculative or of active life, in which Jesuits were not to be found.

They guided the counsels of Kings.

They deciphered Latin inscriptions.