Under  such  circumstances  was  it  that  the  Order  must  neces-
sarily obtain  such  a  unified  power  as  no  society  or  institution  in
the  whole  world  had  ever  before  acquired,  seeing  that  each
member  of  the  Society  of  Jesus,  on  his  admission,  gave  up  his
own  will  and  became,  indeed,  henceforth  an  instrument  merely
for  the  use  of  the  Order.
These  are  the  five  cardinal  points  by  which  the  statutes  of  the
Jesuit  Society  were  pre-eminently  distinguished  from  any  pre-
ceding Order,  and  when  we  contemplate  these  points  the  more
closely  we  cannot  but  be  astonished  at  the  extraordinary  wisdom
which  they  reflect.  Not  the  less  are  we  struck,  at  first  sight,
with  the  reason  why  the  Roman  Court  promised  for  itself  great.
