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* " Dictionnaire philosophique," word "Jesuites." t " Destruction des Jesuites," p. 36, 37. It is true D'Alembert adds (same work p. 207) this remarkable acknowledgment : " The Jesuits were regular troop* assembled and disciplined under the standard of 'superstition,' They were the Macedonian phalanx which it behoved Reason to see broken and destroyed. The Jansenists are but Pandours whom Reason "WILL HAVE BUT LITTLE TROUBLE IN OVERCOMING, WHEN THEY ARE ALONE." The Jesuits driven out by them and drawing them down in their own fall, can address their father, St. Ignatius, in this prayer : " Father, forgive them tor they know not what they do." Thus philosophy was decorating their good friends, the Jansenists' tomb in advance with thesa flowers of mockery, and this after they had pulled the philosophers' chestnuts out of the fire. % " CEuvres de Voltaire," t. LXXXVI, p. 286. II "Journal des Debats," 3 Pevner, 1799 : quoted by De Maistre, ° Considerations sur la Prance, appendice, p. 161. § " ilercure " dv 3 Janvier, 180 G. f Wider legung der langitchen Behauptung einer gezetzl. Slinde.— Anbefebiungunter den Jesuiten, 1824.