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gehalten ist worden (Augsburg, 1483, incun.). An interesting, recent
study of this text, based on the “Aulendorf Codex,” is in the Spencer
Collection of the New York Public Library, published by Karl Kup,
Ulrich von Richental’s Chronicle of the Council of Constance (New
York, 1936). See also H. Finke (ed.), Acta Concilii Constanciensis
(1896), vol. 1; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte (9 vols.), vols. 6, 7; L.
Mirbt, Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums (1934); Milman, Latin
Christianity, vol. 7, pp. 426-524; Pastor, The History of the Popes (34
vols.), vol. 1, p. 197ff.
More recent publications on the council are K. Zahringer, Das
Kardinal Kollegium auf dem Konstanzer Konzil (Munster, 1935); th. F.
Grogau, The Conciliar Theory as it Manifested itself at the Council
of Constance (Washington, 1949); Fred A. Kremple, Cultural As-
pects of the Council of Constance and Basel (Ann Arbor, 1955); John
Patrick McGowan, D’ailly and the Council of Constance (Washington:
Catholic University, 1936).
For John Huss see John Hus, Letters, 1904; E. J. Kitts, Pope John
XXIII and Master John Hus (London, 1910); D. S. Schaff, John Hus
(1915); Schwarze, John Hus (1915); and Matthew Spinka, John Hus
and the Czech Reform (1941).
Page 234. Jesuitism.—For a statement concerning the origin, the
principles, and the purposes of the “Society of Jesus,” as outlined by
members of this order, see a work entitled Concerning Jesuits, edited
by the Rev. John Gerard, S.J., and published in London, 1902, by the
Catholic Truth Society. In this work it is said, “The mainspring of the
whole organization of the Society is a spirit of entire obedience: ‘Let
each one,’ writes St. Ignatius, ‘persuade himself that those who live
under obedience ought to allow themselves to be moved and directed
by divine Providence through their superiors, just as though they were
a dead body, which allows itself to be carried anywhere and to be
treated in any manner whatever, or as an old man’s staff, which serves
him who holds it in his hand in whatsoever way he will.’
“This absolute submission is ennobled by its motive, and should
be, continues the ... founder, ‘prompt, joyous and persevering; ... The
obedient religious accomplishes joyfully that which his superiors have
confided to him for the general good, assured that thereby he corre-
sponds truly with the divine will.’”—The Comtesse R. de Courson, in
Concerning Jesuits, page 6.
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