The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-14
RESEARCH CLUB
Interesting Session Last
Evening.
Rev. Or. KIncaio's ddress on Drey.
fus Affair-Remark OF Profess
sors Scott and Brigham.

Kincaid read a most interesting paper
on the subject from an ecclesias-
teal point of view. Professor Scott |
spoke at some length. as also did Prof |
showing the danger TO be ap-
pretended from military government. |
T. McCants Stewart was elected a MEM |
Der and several additional names were
handed in. The subject for next meet
ing will be Sports.
Following is the substance OF Mr..
Kincaid's paper:
In order to get at the root of the
Dreyfus affair and TO understand its
full meaning, we must go very far
back. Its history really began in 1921,
37S years ago, when a Spanish soldier
of high rank, named Ignatius Loyola,
having been wounded in battle, SOL
EMMY resolved to change his method
of warfare and to become a veritable
soldier of the Pope. He ultimately
created what he called a company or
society of men organized in a totally
different way from any existing eccle-
siastical organization. That company
is known today throughout the world
as the Company of Jesus, or the Jesuit
Society. 1t was established on three
fundamental principles. First. there Is
what is known as the principle of
Probabilism-that any doubtful con-
duct of which you are guilty, although
against the admonition OF your con-
science, is probably permissible If you
can find any doctor of theology any
where in the church who has justified
it or excused it; in other words. the
nrin inln IF no n hn
substitution of external authority for
the voice of conscience. The second
marked feature of this society is what
is called the doctrine of Mental Reser-
walton. AS all the men who have fig
ured on the side of the prosecution in
the DreyfuS business are pupils of the
Jesuits, they furnish us with illustra
tions of all the distinctive features OF
this society. The doctrine of mental
reservation was illustrated by the con-
duct of the president of the first court
martial that tried Captain Dreyfus.
You may remember that when he gave
his evidence on his oath he said that
he had read only one of the several
documents that, in defiance of the fun
damental principles of justice. had
| been shown to the judges at the first
| trial behind the prisoners back and
II
happened to be on that tribunal, as
there has been, happily. on this. at
least one honest man. and he appeared
as witness at Rennes, and therein gave
| Colonel Mauvel. the president of the
| first court-martial. the lie direct, say
| ing that all the documents had been
| read. and not one only. Thereupon
Colonel Mauvel got up and unblush-
| ingly Informed the court that all he
had said was that he had read only
one document, but had not denied that
the rest had been read by his clerk
There you have an illustration of the
Jesuit principle of mental reservation
telling the truth to the letter in order
to deceive in the spirit; and then Their,
is the principle of which you have al
read-that the end justifies the mean:
and that to achieve a particular enc
which is judged desirable and good yol
may adopt the most wicked means anC
remain blameless. and you know tina
at every stage of this trial what Il
called the honorable end has beer
thought to justify lying, forgery an,
attempted assassination. No doub
many engaged in this travesty on jus
tice have been persuaded that the,
were upholding the honor of tn
French army, and that they were jus
titled in behaving in way that ha
staggered and outraged the conscienc
of the entire human race. What. then
was the fundamental principle under
lying the policy of Loyola? 1t was tn
absolute supremacy of external au
thority. The one virtue in the ethica
system of the Jesuits is obednience a
all hazards and at all costs. Even
the thing you are required TO do is con
| m a
it. and you are held blameless II yo
have been ordered to do it by ecclesias
teal authority. Ii you wish to kno,
how thoroughly Loyola elucidated thi
principle you should read his spiritua
. | exercises. Here are two of his instruC
| lions; he puts this sentence into tn
mouth of disciple: Il ought TO desir
to be ruled by a superior who endeaN
ors to subject my Judgment or to- sui
due my understanding" |. e., you mu:
submit not only your conscience an
your will. but your very reason to you
ecclesiastical superior, and you mu.
make every effort to bring your way
thinking into harmony with his. :
that you may do il willingly and II
diligently. Then he adds: Il ougl
not to be my own. but his who create
me, and his. too. by whose means &C
u governs me, and yield myself to- |
moulded in his hand like so niue
wax. l ought to be like a corpse whiC
=. has neither will nor understanding:
like q small crucifix which is twin,
= about at the will OF him that holds 4
or like a staff in the hands OF an o
men who uses il as may best asst
! or please him."
\ Now from that day to- this the hi
tory of the Roman Catholic Chur,
> has been a history OF the efforts OF Il
Jesuit Society to dominate the who
church and 10 saturate II with the
principles, to COMPEL every Roms
Catholic TO submit himself as absolut
~ to the authority of the Pope as eve
Jesuit does to the authority of q
General of his order. This battle h
taken the Jesuits 500 years to- win. al
so far as the hierarchy is concerned