), which after all was incumbent upon any average healthy human reason to do, but were hostile to even an inclination toward the things of the sense, toward love of self and love of worldly things, even where these had not been directly forbidden. For it was better and more honourable to assail the foe ( agere contra ), that is, to attack, than merely to defend oneself ( resistere ). To weaken and break the foe⁠—those were the instructions in the service-book; and here again, its author, the Spanish Loyola, was of one mind with Joachim’s capitán general , the Prussian Frederick, with his motto of “Attack, attack! Keep on their heels! Attaquez donc toujours! ”