Note 153 — Chapter III · The Society of Jesus.—Religious as Educators.
Reading edition
Harnack, What is Christianity? (New York, 1901), Lecture XIV, p. 252.—However, much of what has been written about the military character of the Society is due to a misconception. When Mr. Davidson, in his History of Education, says that “the Society of Jesus was a great military organization, a Catholic Salvation Army, with methods very much resembling those of its latest imitator,” we must call this comparison absurd. For a greater difference than that between the methods of the Society and those of the Salvation Army is scarcely conceivable, not to say a word of the vast difference of their aims.