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The results included fairer taxes; less Church influence in schools; more public education; and removal of the Inquisition, Jesuits, the death penalty, and instruments of torture.
As Washington and the surveyors pass the pipe, intrigues and conspiracies involving all sorts of secret factions--Jesuits, Masons, British trading companies--are hinted at.
They live similar lives, conduct similar courses, and with similar subventions go to similar conferences and give similar papers on every continent (much as David Lodge describes them in Small World ). They are not as tightly knit as other fraternities, past and present (Knights Templar, Freemasons, Jesuits, Mafia, Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, corporate executives of Coca-Cola or Chrysler, or managers of labor unions).
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
He preferred Sufi mysticism to orthodox Islam, and held debates with Brahmins, Jain monks, Parsi Zoroastrians, and Jesuits.