Excerpt from Ignatius Loyola: An Attempt at an Impartial Biography Second: the great heritage that our world of to-day has received from Spain, or, perhaps I should say - though it is all one so far as the Jesuits are concerned - from the Iberian peninsula, is the civilization of South America; and in that civilization, as I am told, the Order of Jesus has been the chief individual factor. I quote from a very recent book by a French scholar: The greater part of whatever was good and useful that had been accomplished for the civiliza tion of South America he is speaking with reference to the date of its independence] - the development of education, both primary and higher, the progress in agriculture - was their doing. In a word, the material and moral wellbeing of South America had been wrought by the Jesuits. And, again, there are the feats of the Jesuits in North America. Readers of Parkman know what they did for the civilization of Canada; and if any one is curious as to the place that the Society occupies in the United States to-day, he has but to visit the colleges of the Jesuits in New York, Boston, Washington, Worcester, and many another city, or, if he prefer, their schools and churches, scattered all over. The originator of this stupendous achievement offers an interest that transcends the boundaries of kingdom or church. 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. | Ignatius Loyola by Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Paperback | Indigo Chapters