Mr. Lang Defends.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 2

Mr. Lang Defends.

One of the happiest results of Mr. Dell's foolish article is the telling defence of the Jesuits which so distinguished a Protestant writer as Mr. Andrew Lang — who knows them and their literature well — contributed to the Pilot (Anglican) of October 12. 'We might as well,' says he in the course of his article, ' bring "an indictment against a nation " as against the Society of Jesus.' And elsewhere he says :' If ever one has met absolute sportsmanlike fairness, in the discussion of historical points which excite partisanship, it is among members of the Society of Jesus. No doubt this does not equally apply to all the members of that or any other community of any sort. But speaking as a Protestant, one may declare that, whatever the principles and training of the Society may be, they do not warp in individuals that not too common intellectual virtue, absolute fairness of judgment in historical questions.'