Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 8: A Monthly Journal For a long while the Jesuits had carried on a merely defensive warfare. They were the Church's soldiers, and nobly did they do their duty. Whenever an attack came from any quarter the Jesuits flew to the rescue. They reconnoitred the enemy's position, and once they had discovered his weak point - with arms of every description - Scripture, tradition, logic, physical science, history, archaeology, oratory, they set themselves to drive back the invader - which they did with unvarying success, until at length they left their adversaries thoroughly discomfitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.