Upon  this,  no  time  was  lost  in  making  an  investigation
regarding  the  rest  of  the  Jesuit  institutions  in  Italy,  several  of
which,  as  those  at  Spoleto,  Foligno,  and  Apisi,  were  at  once
closed.  Thus,  in  this  respect — that  is,  as  to  the  question  of
morality — the  Jesuits  of  the  19th  century  resemble  those  of
former  times ;  and  equally  so  as  regards  the  question  of  murder
and  assassination.  But  how  as  to  this,  indeed  ?  Have  I  not
already  proved  it  to  the  reader  by  the  history  of  the  Sunderbund
war,  of  which  I  was  obliged  to  make  mention  in  the  history  ot
the  extension  of  the  Order  of  Jesus  in  Switzerland  ?  And  does
not  this  appear  even  more  clearly  from  the  Belgian  revolution  of
1830,  which  resulted  in  the  separation  of  Belgium  from  Holland,


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and  which,  according  to  the  irrefutable  testimony  of  history,  was,
at  least,  in  a  great  degree,  the  work  of  the  Jesuits  and  their
friends  ?  Was  there  not  evidence  of  this  also  in  the  Polish
outbreak  of  1872,  wherein  the  Jesuits,  secretly,  and  well
-disguised,  so  long  incited  and  instigated  strife,  until  at  length
blood  flowed  in  streams  ?

The  reader  must,  indeed,  be  more  or  less  aware  of  all  these
things,  and  it  is  merely  sufficient  to  bear  them  in  recollection.
