Note 13 — IV. SCHOOLS OF THE JESUITS.

Why did Bacon, who spoke slightingly of Sturm (see Parker, in Essays on Lib. Ed.), rate the Jesuits so highly? “Consule scholas Jesuitarum: nihil enim quod in usum venit his melius,” De Aug., lib. iv, cap. iv. See, too, a longer passage in first book of De Aug. (about end of first 1/4), “Quæ nobilissima pars priscæ disciplinæ revocata est aliquatenus, quasi postliminio, in Jesuitarum collegiis; quorum cum intueor industriam solertiamque tam in doctrina excolenda quam in moribus informandis, illud occurrit Agesilai de Pharnabazo, ‘Talis cum sis, utinam noster esses.’”