possession of, or get power over, a man's thoughts and feelings, and thus master him. The desire to rule or have dominion over a man's body and property is indeed a great sin: such desire we see in kings, conquerors, political tyrants. But to desire to rule a man's mind, to gain a mastery over his principles and affections, so that he cannot think in freedom—this is a far deeper sin. This we behold sometimes in spiritual rulers, particularly in that corrupt church, called in Scripture "Babylon," in which the effort is unceasingly made to enslave men's mind, in order thereby to hold them and all that they possess in entire subjection. Such lust of dominion is truly infernal: it flows into man's mind from hell itself, and from infernal spirits, whose chief aim is to get the mastery of man's thoughts and passions, knowing well that if they can succeed in this, the man is their slave: they gripe him by the heart, and he cannot move. The members of that subtle fraternity, the Jesuits, have, as is well known, been long distinguished by this species of lust of dominion. Acting as father-confessors of kings and nobles, they have, by first getting sway over their minds, over their ideas and feelings, attained dominion over whole states and kingdoms, and at times have governed according to their will almost the whole of Europe. Thanks to a watchful Providence, their power is now broken forever: as light and knowledge have progressed, men have come to see these agents of the Powers of Darkness in their true character, and are on their guard against them. The Papacy itself is founded in the
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