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of Rationalism . " London , 1865 . Vol . ii ., p . 178 : De Thou . " Hist . sui . Temp . " Paris , 1620 , Lib xcvi ) . Mariana describes Clement as one whom " most men deem the eternal glory of France , " and adds , that though simple-minded and jihysically weak , " a higher mig ht confirmed both his courage and his strength " ( " De Rege . " p . 69 ) . The immediate result of the assassination of Henry III .

was the expulsion of the Order from France . The accession of Henry IV . was the signal for the most violent denunciations by Jesuit preachers against him . Father Commolet , for example , preaching from Judges c , 3 ., boldly asserted that France had need of a champion , such as Ehud , who slew the King of Moab . In 1593 , Barriers was convicted of plotting the King ' s death encouraged , we are told , by Varrade , Rector of the Jesuit College at Paris

( De Thou . " Hist . " Lib . cvii . ) . An unsuccessful attempt to stab the King was made in 1594 by a youth named Jean Chatel . He admitted that he had been brought up at the same institution , and that the Jesuit doctrine of regicide , as taught by Father Guignard , had suggested the commission of the crime ( De Chalon . " Hist , de France , " vol . iii ., p . 245 ; Matthieu . " Hist , de France , " vol . ii ., p . 183 ; Cayet . " Chronologic Novennaire . " L . vi ., p . 432 ) . The popular fury against the Order was now so great that its members were

expelled the kingdom , and all its property was confiscated to the State . Chatel ancl Guignard , also , were both condemned to death . In spite of Sull y ' s earnest warnings , Henry IV . permitted the Jesuits to return , and even appointed one of them , Father Cotton , his confessor . The reason he gave for this step was , that they were incessantly harbouring designs against his life , which , in consequence , was rendered perfectly miserable ( Sully . "Memoires , "

vol . ii ., c . 3 ) . In 1610 , he was assassinated , by Ravaillac . This event gave rise to so great a clamour against Mariana ' s notorious work , that Aquaviva at once passed a decree , forbidding every Jesuit , under pain of excommunication , to assert that it was allowable for any person whatsoever to kill or compass the death of Kings or Princes under the pretext of their being tyrants ( " Inst . " ii ., 5 ) . This prohibition , it should be remarked , was issued more than ten years

after the first edition of Mariana ' s work , and by a General , moreover , who had stamped the subsequent edition of 1605 with his approval . Kellerus , notwithstanding the prohibition , brought out in 1611 , with the approval of Busseus , the head of the Jesuits in Northern Germany , a work entitled " Tyrannicidium , " wherein he defended Mariana ' s doctrine , subject to the qualification that regicide was only justifiable after a formal sentence had been pronounced ( Lecky . " Hist , of Rat ., " vol ii ., p . 178 ) .

On all the above facts , I take my stand . That the Jesuits were morall y responsible for the attacks made upon the lives of Henry III . and IV . has , I submit , been clearly shown . As regards the Massacre of St . Bartholomew , I admit there is no evidence that it was actuall y planned by the Order ; but , on the other hand , 1 find no record that any of its members ever uttered any expression of condemnation at the time . It is , I submit , quite inconceivable that the Prtetorian Guard of Papal Ca _ sarism had no part in a crime which

their master and patron at Rome so vehementl y applauded , and which was due to their own passionate appeals to the fanatical hate and lawless violence of the French populace . NEMESIS .

IX . Sir , —As Bishop Meurin has taken upon himself to reply for Father Daling , I shall address myself at once to the former ' s letter . The value to be attached to Gury ' s qualification , that the means must he indifferent in themselves , depends entirely on what he understands by the

term " indifferent . " Its meaning will appear from his other proposition , that no evil intention will make the infliction of any injury morall y wrong which in its nature is not necessaril y so . Ad injuriam non sufficit mala ititentw