THE BLACK POPE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1
Srn,—It is a mistake to say, as you say in your article of October 8th, on "The Black Pope," that the Jesuits have never been suspected of holding a secret faith of their own. I remember, almost forty years ago, reading a pamphlet on the iniquities of the Jesuits, written by some English or Irish Protestant, in which it was asserted that they are secret Atheists. I do not quote this as if I believed it. The author went on to say that geology had been invented by the Jesuits in order to discredit the Bible.—I am, Sir, &c.,
[The pamphlet was a specimen of individual folly. The Templars were formerly accused of holding a secret faith, and subsequent research has proved that there was at least some evidence for the charge.—En. Spectator.]
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