The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

426 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.divided between Protestants and RomanequallyCatholics, and where the great majority of Protestants are of Scotch blood, and of the Presbyterianchurch. The sum of the whole matter is, that semi-Presbyterian and semi-Scotch Ulster is fully threetimes more immoral than wholly Popish and whollyIrish Connaught which corresponds with wonderfulaccuracy to the more general fact that Scotland,as a whole, is three times more immoral than Irelandas a whole."It isworthy, too, of notice, that in the tabularstatement above presented, the percentage of illegitimacy in Holland and Switzerland, where thereare large Catholic minorities, is lower than in anyother Protestant country.We have at hand evidences, furnished by Protestant writers, of the hideous immoralities of certainEuropean nations that are more thoroughly Protestantized than England itself. Thus, Mr. Laiugwrites: "Of the 2,714 children born in Stockholm,1,577 were legitimate, 1,137 illegitimate; makingonly a balance of 440 chaste mothers out of 2,714 ;and the proportion of illegitimate to legitimatechildren not as one to two and three-tenths, butas one to one and a half." A Tour in Sweden in1838.But we are not disposed to parade these monstrousvices, no matter by whom committed. We alludeto them with feelings of shame, not of pleasure; andgive them a passing notice merely in self-defence