It was for this that Lewis XIV.

counted them worse than atheists.

The Jesuits, it has been well said in keeping down their enemies by force, became the partisans of absolute government, and upheld it on every occasion.

The Jansenists, after they had been crushed by violence, began to feel to what excesses power might be brought.

From being speculative enemies to freedom as a theory, they became, through the education of persecution, the partisans of freedom in practice.