1768-1769
[This subject is one of profound and far-reaching significance in
history, especially that of Europe; but the exigencies of our limited
space forbid us to do more than suggest some of the more important
aspects of this matter, and to furnish references to historical works
in which it is treated at length. Our chief attention is necessarily
given to the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Philippines, which will
concern us mainly with the facts of the case; and for this we must
have recourse largely to Montero y Vidal's account of it as given in
his Historia de Filipinas, ii, chapters v-vii. (Ferrando says nothing
about the banishment of the Jesuits, save in a few incidental allusions
which we have cited in previous notes.) To this relation we add a few
contemporaneous documents, and other matter from various historical
writers, presenting as far as available actual facts, and the views
of both sides, impartially.]