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Resistance and Assimilation

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March 1981, no. 28

With Pen and Tongue: The Jesuits in Australia 1865-1939 by Ursula Bygott

Melbourne University Press, $27.00 pb, 423 pp

Resistance and Assimilation

by
March 1981, no. 28

The Jesuits are, whatever else you might say about them, formidable. Dr Bygott quotes Francis Bacon, who believed that the Jesuits as teachers ‘are so good that I wish they were on our side’.

I myself am, in part, a product of their education system. Several of the personalities in Dr Bygott’s study have been known to me personally, and I can honestly say that I never knew a Jesuit whom I did not, in one way or another, admire.

With Pen and Tongue: The Jesuits in Australia 1865-1939

With Pen and Tongue: The Jesuits in Australia 1865-1939

by Ursula Bygott

Melbourne University Press, $27.00 pb, 423 pp

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