Note 478 — Chapter VIII · Opposition to Jesuit Education.

History of Education, p. 172.—Similar opinions were expressed recently by Mr. Frank Hugh O’Donnell, in his book, The Ruin of Education in Ireland, London, 1902. He would advise the commission on Irish University Education to “refuse every public endowment and public monopoly to the Order of St. Ignatius. Their individual virtues and scholarship do not diminish the formidable hostility of their brotherhood to independence, to progress, to liberty, to toleration and concord between citizens of different creeds. They are the pretorians of religious despotism.... Catholic ruin and Catholic ignorance have attended everywhere the Jesuit monopoly. Where the Jesuit plants, the crops are indifference, emasculation, and decay.... Their system is ruin to the Catholic religion. They belong to an age before modern times.... They can stimulate fanaticism. They cannot develop reason. They supplant, and call it assistance and direction. They suck the brain of the lay-people,” etc.—Quoted in The Month, September 1902, pp. 253–254.