The Great Mogul--Rudolph Aquaviva--Jerome Xavier--de Nobili--de Britto--Beschi--The Pariahs--Entering Thibet --From Pekin to Europe--Mingrelia, Paphlagonia and Chaldea--The Maronites--Alexander de Rhodes--Ricci enters China--From Agra to Pekin--Adam Schall--Arrival of the Tatars--Persecutions--Schall condemned to Death--Verbiest --de Tournon's Visit--The French Royal Mathematicians-- Avril's Journey 228-267 CHAPTER IX BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Aquaviva and the Spanish Opposition--Vitelleschi--The "Monita Secreta"; Morlin--Roding--"Historia Jesuitici Ordinis"--"Jesuiticum Jejunium"--"Speculum Jesuiticum"-- Pasquier--Mariana--"Mysteries of the Jesuits"--"The Jesuit Cabinet"--"Jesuit Wolves"--"Teatro Jesuítico"-- "Morale Pratique des Jésuites"--"Conjuratio Sulphurea"-- "Lettres Provinciales"--"Causeries du Lundi" and Bourdaloue--Prohibition of publication by Louis XIV-- Pastoral of the Bishops of Sens--Santarelli--Escobar-- Anti-Coton--Margry's "Descouvertes"--Norbert 268-295 CHAPTER X THE TWO AMERICAS 1567-1673 Chile and Peru--Valdivia--Peruvian Bark--Paraguay Reductions--Father Fields--Emigration from Brazil-- Social and religious prosperity of the Reductions-- Martyrdom of twenty-nine missionaries--Reductions in Colombia--Peter Claver--French West Indies--St. Kitts-- Irish Exiles--Father Bath or Destriches--Montserrat-- Emigration to Guadeloupe--Other Islands--Guiana--Mexico-- Lower California--The Pious Fund--The Philippines-- Canada Missions--Brébeuf, Jogues, Le Moyne, Marquette-- Maryland--White--Lewger 296-342 CHAPTER XI CULTURE Colleges--Their Popularity--Revenues--Character of education: Classics; Science; Philosophy; Art-- Distinguished Pupils--Poets: Southwell; Balde; Sarbievius; Strada; Von Spee; Gresset; Beschi.--Orators: Vieira; Segneri; Bourdaloue.--Writers: Isla; Ribadeneira; Skarga; Bouhours etc.--Historians--Publications-- Scientists and Explorers--Philosophers--Theologians-- Saints 343-386 CHAPTER XII FROM VITELLESCHI TO RICCI 1615-1773 Pupils in the Thirty Years War--Caraffa; Piccolomini; Gottifredi--Mary Ward--Alleged decline of the Society-- John Paul Oliva--Jesuits in the Courts of Kings--John Casimir--English Persecutions. Luzancy and Titus Oates-- Jesuit Cardinals--Gallicanism in France--Maimbourg--Dez-- Troubles in Holland. De Noyelle and Innocent XI-- Attempted Schism in France--González and Probabilism--Don Pedro of Portugal--New assaults of Jansenists-- Administration of Retz--Election of Ricci--The Coming Storm 387-423 CHAPTER XIII CONDITIONS BEFORE THE CRASH