There is no intelligent reader of French history who is not familiar with the steps taken by this perfidious queen regent, after the admission of the Jesuits into Paris, to bring about the terrible Massacre of St. Bartholomew--an event so closely allied with others, of which they were the undoubted authors, that one must close his eyes not to see the evidences which point to their agency in that infamous transaction. They needed such bloody work to give them the mastery over France; and although they have since then been more than once expelled in disgrace from French soil, they have returned again and again to torment her people, who still continue to realize, under their Republic, how unceasingly they labor for the entire overthrow of every form of popular government. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 53: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 36.] [Footnote 54: Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 103-104.] [Footnote 55: _Ibid._, p. 104.] [Footnote 56: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 105.] [Footnote 57: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 105.] [Footnote 58: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 106.] [Footnote 59: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 107.] [Footnote 60: Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 108-109.] [Footnote 61: Church in France. By Jervis. Vol. I, p. 146.] [Footnote 62: Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 111-112.] [Footnote 63: _Ibid._, p. 114.] [Footnote 64: Daurignac, Vol. I, pp. 177-178.] [Footnote 65: Nicolini, pp. 177-178.] [Footnote 66: Daurignac, Vol. I, p. 110.] CHAPTER VII. THE SOCIETY ENTERS GERMANY. The Jesuits encountered less difficulty in establishing themselves in Germany than in either Spain, Portugal, or France. Race differences may have occasioned this. The populations resting upon the shores of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic descended from the early Celts, and became readily Latinized. They accepted the traditionary religion of Rome; knew comparatively little of the Bible, which was a sealed book to them; and received their Christian faith only from the Roman clergy. There was no word in any of their languages which signified liberty in the sense of a right derived from the law of nature. With them, liberty conveyed the idea of a franchise, granted by authority, and subject to be withdrawn at pleasure. Hence they yielded implicit obedience to Rome, and accepted it as consistent with the Divine will that no other than the Romish religion should be recognized or tolerated, and that force might be justifiably employed to suppress all others when it was deemed necessary to do so. Consequently they were inclined at first to resist--or, at least, to look suspiciously upon--the Jesuits, inasmuch as Loyola had declared it to be the controlling reason for the creation of the society that the ancient monastic orders and the clergy had by their vices endangered the Church. This seemed heretical, and therefore they practiced towards him and his followers at first their accustomed intolerance. They preferred the old system, to which they had become accustomed, to anything new, with regard