Surgimus plures toties cadendo.”
[12]. Their famous missionary, Francis Xavier, whom they canonized, was ignorant of a single word in the languages of the Indians whom he professed to evangelize. He employed a hand-bell to summon the natives around him; and the poor savages, mistaking him for one of their learned Brahmans, he baptized them until his arm was exhausted with the task, and boasted of every one he baptized as a regenerated convert!
[13]. Macintosh, Hist. of England, ii. 353.
[14]. Macintosh, Hist. of England, ii. 357.
[15]. Augustine himself is chargeable with having been the first to introduce the scholastic mode of treating morality in the form of trifling questions, more fitted to gratify curiosity, and display acumen, than to edify or enlighten. His example was followed and miserably abused, by the moralists of succeeding ages. (Buddei Isagoge, vol. i. p. 568.)
[16]. Lancelot. Tour to Alet, p. 173; Leydecker, p. 122.
[17]. The whole title was: “Augustinus Cornelii Jansenii episcopi, seu doctrina sancti Augustini de humanæ naturæ sanctitate ægritudinæ medica, adversus Pelagianos et Massilienses.” Louvain, 1640.
[18]. Leydecker, p. 132; Lancelot, p. 180.
[19]. Ranke, Hist. of the Popes, vol. iii. 143; Abbé Du Mas, Hist. des Cinq Propositions, p. 48.
[20]. Letter xviii. pp. 310–313.