Those whose future rank is not yet decided, but who are admitted upon the condition that they shall be employed in whatever way the Society shall deem most suited to their talents. To this list Mr. Duller adds another class, which he terms affiliated members, or adjuncts, which he states includes even ladies. {12a} From his account they appear to be bound to the Order by a compact that on their part they will act as spies and agents in all their intercourse with those amongst whom they dwell, while the Society undertakes in return to guarantee to them a share in all those spiritual privileges which, as it vainly pretends, it is the Jesuits’ prerogative to bestow. {12b} The effect of these affiliated members and lay coadjutors is, of course, enormous. They are like the thin fibres to the root, through whose power the whole plant is nourished. They impart to the Order an ever-penetrating power. They enable it to act without awakening the least suspicion of its presence, to worm its way into the very heart of Protestantism, and to secure the unsuspecting confidence of those whom they desire to betray and ruin. These different classes are all subject to the absolute and uncontrolled authority of the General. This important officer is elected for life by a general assembly of the professed members. He resides at Rome, and is assisted by a small council, consisting of a certain number of assistants, and elected representatives from the different provinces. The whole world is divided into districts, over each of which one assistant is appointed to preside; these districts are again subdivided into “Provinces,” with a Provincial at the head of each, appointed by the General for a given time, and these provinces contain their houses for the professed, with a Provost at the head of each, their novice-houses, colleges, seminaries, and, in Protestant-lands, mission-houses, where their agents live unnoticed as secular clergy. There is therefore, throughout, the most complete system of graduated authority. Every Jesuit has over him a certain officer, to whose authority he is absolutely subject; and the connexion is so perfect, that the command of the General strikes without fail, like an electric shock, to the most distant individual in the Order. The Provincial or the Provost is just as much under authority as the priest or the novice; and there is the same law of unquestioning submission in all the ranks and complex ramifications of the Society; the result of which is, that the General has at his command a devoted and well-compacted army, quartered discreetly in every nation of the known world, and ready at any moment to execute his designs. The same arrangements are equally effective in supplying the General with information. The Provincials and other officers are all required to send full reports of their several districts to head-quarters. The characters, acquirements, dispositions, successes,