Jesuit Who Proselytize Win Souls

But while Jacques Cretineau-Joly denies with such confidence the aim of the Jesuits to proselytize, and yet gravely tells us that, " nevertheless, the number of Catholics was yearly increased," he says in the very same sentence that this was owing,

" above all other causes, to the prudence combined with the zeal of the Jesuits."

How could their zeal have effected this, unless it had been zeal to effect it by proselytism? and wherein could their prudence be combined with that zeal, unless in their attempts, like his own, to conceal or deny it ?

Link (here) to the book published in 1863 entitled The Poor Gentlemen of Liege: The History of the Jesuits in England and Ireland