The Carlist war has always been the war of ignorance and deceit against enlightenment and the advance of thought.

It is needless to say upon which side the cassock has ranged itself.
The Basques were promised their liberty; they should be allowed to live as they had always lived, practically a republic, if they only succeeded in forcing an absolute monarchy on the rest of Spain.

The Jesuits made this promise.

The society found itself in the position that no promise must be allowed to stick in the throat.
Sarrion, like all who knew their strange story, was ready enough to recognise the fact that the Jesuit body must be divided into two parts of head and heart.

The heart has done the best work that missionaries have yet accomplished.