History Of The Society Of Jesus In North America Colonial And Federal Volume 1 Part 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Vol. 1: Colonial and Federal The first portion of the American history, which is herewith laid before the public, belonged properly to the English historian of the Society of Jesus. The whole of this history, like that projected for England, is only one part of a comprehensive historical series, comprising in different languages an authentic account of the Society over the world. During the first century and a half of Jesuit life and work in the British Colonies of North America, the persons who worked there, as well as the organization of the whole Mission itself, were referred to that unit of Jesuit government which was called the English Province. A number of reasons, however, induced the historian of that Province to seek relief from a piece of historical work, which appeared as dissonant in general tone and temper from English history, as its subject was distant from English soil. Hence, for that first century and a half, it was transferred to the pages of this narrative, which was intended originally to comprise only the Jesuit history of the nineteenth century in the United States and Canada. So transferred, that portion had to be prefixed. And it now supplies an appropriate and even necessary train of antecedents to the later history of the Order in English-speaking North America. We have taken for our title the official and proper name of this Religious Order, which in the Latin nations of Europe is styled, with a very exact shade of military meaning, "The Company of Jesus," but in the official ecclesiastical Latin, for want of a more precise term, had to be rendered Societas Jesu. From the official Latin the English name was taken, and we use it here: "The Society of Jesus." We might have preferred the shorter and popular epithet of "Jesuits," were it not that a well-known volume of Francis Parkman's had appropriated the simpler and easier name for a history of "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.