CHAPTER V.

Jesuit Colleges and Their Work before the Suppression of the Society (1540-1773).

Rapid Spread of Jesuit Colleges 144

Superiority of the Jesuit Schools according to the Testimony of Protestants 145

Literary and Scientific Activity of Jesuit Colleges 148

Languages 149

Mathematics and Natural Sciences 155

Geography 158

History 160

Literature 161

School Drama of the Jesuits 164

Growing Opposition to the Society 173

Suppression of the Order 175

Protection of Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catharine II of Russia 176

Efficiency of Jesuit Colleges at the Time of the Suppression 178

Effects of the Suppression on Education in Catholic Countries 184