The worst and most dangerous thing of which a scholar is capable results from the instinct of mediocrity of his type, from the Jesuitism of mediocrity, which labours instinctively for the destruction of the exceptional man, and endeavours to break or still better, to relax every bent bow To relax, of course, with consideration, and naturally with an indulgent hand to with confiding sympathy that is the real art of Jesuitism, which has always understood how to introduce itself as the religion of sympathy.