[Sidenote: Efficiency] Every one has noticed the immense versatility of the Jesuits and their superficiality.

They produced excellent scholars of a certain rank, men who could decipher Latin inscriptions, observe the planets, publish libraries of historical sources, of casuistry and apologetic, or write catechisms or epigrams.
They turned with equal facility to preaching to naked savages and to the production of art for the most cultivated peoples in the world.

And yet they have rarely, if ever, produced a great scholar, a great scientist, a great thinker, or even a great ascetic.

They were not founded for such purposes; they were founded to fight for the church and they did that with extraordinary success.
[Sidenote: Failure] But their very efficiency became, as pursued for its own sake it must always become, soulless.

In terms suggested by the Great War, the Jesuits were the incarnation of religious militarism.