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@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ figure in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Directory, which may be described
official publication of the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> authorities, is
398277000. Authoritative works of reference, which take amazing
pains to ascertain exactly how many tons of steel are produced
annually in, or tons of rice imported into, <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> give
annually in, or tons of rice imported into, <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States give
world-totals which similarly differ from each other by tens of
millions when they turn to "the venerable <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>."</p>
@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ national totals which are forwarded to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. Two things, a
others, are reported: how many <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in the loose sense --
baptized persons -- there are in the parish and, particularly, how
many of them are real <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> as testified by attendance at
church on Sundays and the number of confessions at Easter. But
neither local prelates nor <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> ever publish these results.
church on <ent type='LOC'>Sundays</ent> and the number of confessions at Easter. But
neither local prelates nor the Vatican ever publish these results.
The nearest approach to an official international annual is <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent>
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>us, and it gives no world-total; though if you add up the
statements for each country the total runs to about 350000000.</p>
@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ dishonest method, but even professors of sociology who include the
Countries which, from geographical or historical conditions, never
accepted the Reformation are still called <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries, and
the whole population is usually included in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total or
only from 1 to 5 percent is allowed for <ent type='NORP'>Protestants</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, and --
only from 1 to 5 percent is allowed for Protestants, <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, and --
though they generally form the largest body -- skeptics. These
countries (<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and its colonies, <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and its former
colonies, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> and its colonies, <ent type='NORP'>Spanish</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, and generally
@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ bulk of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> figure. For other countries the figu
equally fantastic. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer in the Encyclopedia
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives 11000000 to <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, where no <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> claims more
than 3000000 and there are now certainly not 300000: 39000000
to <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, which have had for quarter of a century a
to <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and Hungary, which have had for quarter of a century a
total (mixed) population of only 15000000: 24000000 to <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>,
where the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is in ruins: 35000000 to <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, which is at
least five times too much.</p>
@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ Canon Law is simple and peremptory: everybody who once received
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> baptism. <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writers are uneasy about this
arrogant theory of their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> that you cannot secede from it, and
they are shifty and evasive in defining what they mean when they
claim that there are more than 26000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in the United
<ent type='GPE'>States</ent>. In a fantastic -- <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> call it a scientific -- work,
claim that there are more than 26000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
States. In a fantastic -- <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> call it a scientific -- work,
Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith? (1925), Fr. G. <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent> says
that by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> he means one who has received <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> baptism, </p>
@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ is not taken into account -- and he ought to know, and probably
does know, that <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>, and other <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> commonly marry
in the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and allow the mothers or relatives to have the
children baptized though they have definitely abandoned it. From
quotations given in <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?' (1931)
quotations given in Moore's 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?' (1931)
it appears that in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> periodicals Fr. <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent>, a professor
at a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> college, is accustomed to give the usual definition
of a <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>: one who was baptized in infancy. This is the strict
@ -175,14 +175,14 @@ thought their way out of the creed and quietly severed their
connection with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>.</p>
<p> The only real test is attendance at church. There are two
vital differences to bear in mind in comparing <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> and
vital differences to bear in mind in comparing Protestant and
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> statistics. Many <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es do not baptize children and by
"members" they mean the adolescent and adult, but the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of
<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> counts babies a week old. The second difference is that a man
may be a genuine member of a <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> yet attend the
may be a genuine member of a Protestant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> yet attend the
services very irregularly. A <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> cannot. He is, unless there
is "grave reason" (illness, etc., not a social engagement or
tiredness.), bound to attend every Sunday morning as stringently as
tiredness.), bound to attend every <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> morning as stringently as
he is prohibited adultery and much more stringently than he is </p>
<p> Bank of Wisdom
@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<p>forbidden to lie, get drunk, be cruel, or rob this neighbor. It is
only a rare and abnormal type of mind that, holding this belief,
can miss Mass Sunday after Sunday -- hell every time. though the
can miss Mass <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> after <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> -- hell every time. though the
sentences run concurrently since they are eternal -- for frivolous
reasons; and to question the law is to question <ent type='ORG'>the authority</ent> of
the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or the whole distinctive structure of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> teaching.
@ -208,11 +208,11 @@ countries, we need not worry about the obscure situation in <ent type='GPE'>Fran
<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, etc., today. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> is, in all these totals, credited with
39000000 or 40000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in a total population of
41000000. It is amazing how <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> swallow this.
Until the political alliance of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
government began in 1919, on the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s promise to curb rebellion
Until the political alliance of the Vatican and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
government began in 1919, on the Church's promise to curb rebellion
in <ent type='GPE'>Alsace</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Lorraine</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> had thundered against that "government of
<ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Freemasons</ent>" for 50 years. It had ruined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in
<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and defied the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s. And it had the vast majority of the
<ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Freemasons</ent>" for 50 years. It had ruined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in
<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and defied the Pope's. And it had the vast majority of the
people with it, since, in free elections, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> could
hardly get a deputy, much legs a statesman, in <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
culture was solidly anti-<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>. Its hundreds of scientific men were
@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ for 50 years (from 1870 onward) a government and a monarchy which
were under the ban of excommunication. I traveled all over <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> in
1904 as a delegate to a <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> of Freethinkers, and my yellow
ticket evoked friendly smiles and reductions of price everywhere:
except, I regret to say at <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. Nine-tenths of the leading
except, I regret to say at the Vatican. Nine-tenths of the leading
novelists, poets, and dramatists as well as the scientists were as
in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, Freethinkers. . . . But enough. The electoral figures I
gave in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason prove that at the time when
@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ this (The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Crisis, 1939) an anti-ecclesiastical g
established at one free election after another in spite of the
hysterical curses of the hierarchy, had ruled <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and defied the
<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> for five years, and it took the sweepings of
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, assisted by a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Society for Non-Intervention (or for
Europe, assisted by a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> Society for Non-Intervention (or for
Protecting Intervention) and an <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Embargo, to put Humpty
Dumpty back on the wall, where he wobbles until the day of freedom
returns. The <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> Jesuit -- and if you know anything more orthodox
@ -296,14 +296,14 @@ come up and see me some time -- Fr. <ent type='PERSON'>Gannon</ent> said in the
January 23, 1937, that there are in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> "ten or fifteen million
<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>." Split the difference and say 12000000, mostly
belonging to the illiterate 40 percent of the nation, and strike
another 15000000 off the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total for <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>.</p>
another 15000000 off the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total for Europe.</p>
<p> In that total the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na counts 26060000 for <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and
13000000 for <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer is, of course, aware
13000000 for Hungary. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer is, of course, aware
that this is a reference -- and not accurate even as such -- to the
population of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> before 1919. Nearly 20 years before
population of <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>-Hungary before 1919. Nearly 20 years before
he wrote this article <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> had been reduced to a population of
7000000 and <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> to one of 9000000. In <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, moreover,
7000000 and Hungary to one of 9000000. In <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, moreover,
the Socialists had been in the majority and held power in <ent type='GPE'>Vienna</ent>
and several other cities for years, so that the <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>, mostly
peasants, were not 93 percent (<ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent>) of the population but, </p>
@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
.
<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
<p>certainly not more than two-thirds. In <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, which recoiled into
<p>certainly not more than two-thirds. In Hungary, which recoiled into
Fascism after the unfortunate <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> episode, they are not
13000000 but are officially returned as 65 percent of the actual
population or 6000000. Deduct a further 12000000.</p>
@ -335,19 +335,19 @@ a monk) for a year there, and the <ent type='NORP'>Belgian</ent> friars forbade
appear in my robes on the streets of <ent type='GPE'>Brussels</ent> as the ensuing
blasphemy would be painful. This was 45 years ago, and the
<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> have waged an even battle with the contemptuously anti-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> and Socialists ever since until the devout <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>
murdered the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s critics for it. <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> (7000000) is said
murdered the Church's critics for it. <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> (7000000) is said
to be "mostly" <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>. As it is still 50 percent illiterate I
would not mind much, but the fact is that it kicked out its
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> king 32 years ago and kept its angry <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> to heel until
the butcher <ent type='PERSON'>Salazar</ent> joined <ent type='ORG'>the Butchers Union</ent> of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> (15000000 until 1939) is described in the <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent> as 80
the butcher <ent type='PERSON'>Salazar</ent> joined <ent type='ORG'>the Butchers Union</ent> of Europe. <ent type='GPE'>Czecho</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent> (15000000 until 1939) is described in the <ent type='ORG'>Orbis</ent> as 80
percent <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>. Turn over No 5 of the last series and see how the
leading <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> weekly in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> acknowledged a loss of 2000000
in five years after 1919. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was in ruins until <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s
in five years after 1919. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was in ruins until Hitler's
salvage Corps set it up again in <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, one of the most
illiterate regions of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>.</p>
illiterate regions of Europe.</p>
<p> But we need not run over all these smaller countries. The
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na says that there are 183000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. How
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na says that there are 183000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in Europe. How
consoling to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns! But on the safest of grounds -- full
particulars and authorities in earlier numbers -- we have had to
strike off something like 100000000 of these and in the next
@ -361,9 +361,9 @@ statistics. He says that there are 50000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and 44000000 in the <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>. Not being an <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n I have
to be modest, but as the population of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is about
90000000 and half its inhabitants are illiterate, I should be
inclined to grant it at least 50000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s. On the other
inclined to grant it at least 50000000 Catholic's. On the other
hand, even if we grant the 20000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> demanded in the
<ent type='GPE'>States</ent> and the 4500000 claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Canada</ent>, and the 14000000
States and the 4500000 claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Canada</ent>, and the 14000000
claimed in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, I hardly see how they amount, even in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
arithmetic, to 50000000. Pray do not be impatient with my little
jokes. I am showing you how the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total is made up.</p>
@ -392,8 +392,8 @@ Nine-tenths of the population of 90000000 are usually claimed in
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> total, and at least 20000000 must be subtracted.</p>
<p> It is of greater interest here to examine the situation in the
United <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>. Let us first get a clear general idea what
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> means. It consists of immigrants from <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>
United States. Let us first get a clear general idea what
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> means. It consists of immigrants from Europe
(and partly from <ent type='GPE'>Quebec</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>) and their descendants. And in
this connection I have to notice the funny and learned book of
Father Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Shaugnessy</ent>,'Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith?'
@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<p> Apart from these little oddities of apologetic literature
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> statistics are weird and wonderful. In the last
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was revised by
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s in order to secure accuracy about their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, it is
Catholic's in order to secure accuracy about their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, it is
said that the "official figure" for the year 1928 was 19689049 --
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Press Directory said 21453928 -- the "generally
accepted" figure, 22733254, and the "true" figure 25000000.
@ -471,8 +471,8 @@ the canonical principle that a <ent type='ORG'>seceder</ent> is still a <ent typ
<p> I made a very thorough study of the matter, following upon the
analysis of official statistics in my Decay of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>
(1909), in No. 1 of the Appeal to <ent type='ORG'>Reason Library</ent> (ch. 5, 1925).
There I give <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> evidence, largely taken from J.F. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s
(1909), in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason Library (ch. 5, 1925).
There I give <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> evidence, largely taken from J.F. Moore's
useful book 'Will <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> Become <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>?', (1931), that priests
do in fact, and are sometimes so advised by the bishops, deceive
the public by counting lapsed as actual <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>. A check on their
@ -516,8 +516,8 @@ for the comfort of the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> hierarchy.</p>
THE MAXIMUM OF CRIME</p>
<p> My <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> papers report today (March 13) that "<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> has
protested to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> 'because it is encouraging' a Jap Bid to
Stir up Trouble." What precisely the <ent type='ORG'>State Department</ent> objects to is
protested to the Vatican 'because it is encouraging' a Jap Bid to
Stir up Trouble." What precisely the State Department objects to is
not clear but the public is informed that it is to "the
establishment of relations between <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and the Holy See, as asked
for by <ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent>." Those relations were, as I have repeatedly
@ -530,19 +530,19 @@ diplomatic alliance (1935) with exchange of ambassadors and the
most graceful courtesies, exactly in proportion as the Japs sank
deeper into crime and corruption. In booklets (No. 2 and No. 4) of
the first series on <ent type='ORG'>the Black International</ent> I traced the whole
story and told from the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s own newspaper, how one of the vilest
story and told from the Pope's own newspaper, how one of the vilest
of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese agents <ent type='PERSON'>Matsuoka</ent>, fresh from the final meeting of the
bloody conspirators in <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> (1941), was received with special
honor and warmth at <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and granted a gold medal by the
honor and warmth at the Vatican and granted a gold medal by the
<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>.</p>
<p> And the press would now like us to believe that after ten
years of this unconcealed courtship <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> has just discovered,
presumably through its <ent type='ORG'>Secret Service</ent>, that the Japs have
approached <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>! What is really wrong about the matter? Very
approached the Vatican! What is really wrong about the matter? Very
certainly <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> knew every step in the development of the
relations of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the Japs, and there must have been few
editorial offices of any importance in <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> in which
relations of the Vatican and the Japs, and there must have been few
editorial offices of any importance in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States in which
they were not known. Why were they concealed from the public or
mentioned only in obscure paragraphs as items of little
significance?</p>
@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ significance?</p>
to <ent type='ORG'>the Black International</ent>. The interest's of trade had a good deal
to do with the suppression of discussion as far as <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> is
concerned. But there was little to discuss in <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> seeking an ally
in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The monstrous thing was the closer and closer approach
of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> as it strode foully and bloodily from one
in Europe. The monstrous thing was the closer and closer approach
of the Vatican to <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> as it strode foully and bloodily from one
province of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> to another. Can there be the slightest doubt that
one of the advantages the Japs sought in the alliance was that the
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> influence should counteract in all countries, and
@ -572,11 +572,11 @@ concerns us here is that press and politicians say that the <ent type='ORG'>Chur
of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> is so important an institution in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> that they are
bound to consult its wishes and are naturally reluctant to see
anything wrong in its proceedings. Most of us will not accept the
apology. Many <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n papers told in 1935 how <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and
apology. Many <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n papers told in 1935 how the Vatican and
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent> were arranging an alliance; and many others told in the same
year how <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> seethed with patriotic societies, some of them two
to three million strong, which demanded the expulsion of all
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns and <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>ans from <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, and how tableaux depicting just
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns and Europeans from <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, and how tableaux depicting just
such a destruction of part of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n fleet as occurred
recently in <ent type='LOC'>Pearl Harbor</ent> were publicly exhibited to jubilant crowds
in the chief streets of the cities. But there were no editorials or
@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ something less than 15000000 <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in <ent type='GPE'
not 390000000 but less than 200000000 subjects. Seeing,
however, that the chief excuse given for subservience to the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is that it contributes materially to <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n civilization,
it is still more important to examine the quality of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s
it is still more important to examine the quality of the Pope's
subjects.</p>
<p> We have already seen the hypocrisy of the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> claim of moral
@ -634,13 +634,13 @@ for skill in literature, sport, the cinema, church-organization,
banking, or striptease.</p>
<p> With this qualification we see a pregnant significance in the
analysis of the names which Professors <ent type='PERSON'>Huntington</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>
analysis of the names which Professors Huntington and <ent type='ORG'>Whitney</ent>
published in their Builders of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> a few years ago. They found
that <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> are represented in Who's Who by only 7.4 per 100000
of their body (7 men and 0.4 women), and these are very largely --
but the professors do not point out this -- ecclesiastics. You will
gather what this means when I add that even the <ent type='ORG'>Mormons</ent>, with 11
men and 5 women to the 100000, outshine them; while the <ent type='NORP'>Methodists</ent>
men and 5 women to the 100000, outshine them; while the Methodists
have 18 men and 0.6 women. The <ent type='NORP'>Episcopalians</ent> have 156 men and 18
women: the <ent type='NORP'>Unitarians</ent> (who are largely freethinkers in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>)
have 1185 men and 103 women per 100000. In other words, the
@ -661,12 +661,12 @@ witnesses, J.F. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent> (Will <ent type='GPE'>America</en
<ent type='PERSON'>Shane Leslie</ent>, Benson, (Father) <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent>, (Father) <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent>, and
Sheila Kaye-Smith. If you have read these you will reflect that the
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> body must be very poor indeed, in illumination if
it is outshone by that galaxy: especially as <ent type='PERSON'>Chesterton</ent>'s
it is outshone by that galaxy: especially as Chesterton's
brilliance -- if you care to use the word -- was increasingly
dimmed and his influence increasingly more mischievous after he
joined the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and became a sort of pensioner of it. The
"brilliance" of Father <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent> and Father R. <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent> must be a
little joke of Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Moore</ent>'s, as he is usually judicious. However,
"brilliance" of Father <ent type='PERSON'>Martindale</ent> and father R. <ent type='PERSON'>Knox</ent> must be a
little joke of Mr. Moore's, as he is usually judicious. However,
against these <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> giants of the pen <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> can, he
says, put only <ent type='PERSON'>Joyce Kilmer</ent> -- what a pity he died nearly a quarter
of a century ago -- though he elsewhere adds <ent type='PERSON'>Carlton Hayes</ent>, Michael
@ -682,10 +682,10 @@ none of these intellectual prejudices about truth and reality and
is as ready to embrace any creed that is prettily dressed as
anything that is pretty undressed. So we do not wonder at the
number of artists. To the literary artists (<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>)
given above add <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent>, Sir P. Gibbs, <ent type='PERSON'>Compton Mackenzie</ent>, W.
given above add <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent>, sir P. Gibbs, <ent type='PERSON'>Compton Mackenzie</ent>, W.
Meynell, <ent type='PERSON'>Christopher Dawson</ent>, and a few other good second-raters.
Then there are devout artists like Sir <ent type='PERSON'>Seymour</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Lady Hicks</ent>,
<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Laughton</ent>, Sir F. Brangwyn, Sir <ent type='PERSON'>John Lavery</ent>, and Sir G.G.
<ent type='PERSON'>Charles Laughton</ent>, sir F. Brangwyn, Sir <ent type='PERSON'>John Lavery</ent>, and Sir G.G.
Scott.
Bank of Wisdom
Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ provide five rich prizes every year for the world's most
distinguished workers in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature,
and the cause of peace. However, the prizes have been awarded for
nearly 40 years and apart from a little patriotic bias in favor of
<ent type='NORP'>Scandinavian</ent> and the little nations, the awards, based upon the
Scandinavian and the little nations, the awards, based upon the
reports of competent committees in every country, are the safest </p>
<p> Bank of Wisdom
@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ analysis I can find only <ent type='PERSON'>Alexis Carrel</ent> who is recogniza
Here we should understand that the judges stipulate for "an
idealist tendency" in the works and are themselves religious, so
large numbers of the greater writers of modern tames (Wells,
Conrad, Zola, D'Annunzio, Sudermann, Capek, <ent type='PERSON'>Galdo</ent>'s, Ibanez, Gorki,
Conrad, Zola, D'Annunzio, Sudermann, Capek, Galdo's, Ibanez, Gorki,
Tolstoy, <ent type='ORG'>Santayana</ent>, etc.) have been excluded because they were
freethinkers, while a few sentimental writers belonging to small
countries and hardly known outside these countries have been
@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ proportion of them shrinks into invisibility.</p>
<p> Hilaire <ent type='PERSON'>Belloc</ent> said to me (with his characteristic thump of
the table) some years ago: "I don't care what you say, McCabe, the
intellect of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> has been warped ever since the 16th Century."
intellect of Europe has been warped ever since the 16th Century."
It is one of his favorite themes that his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> alone develops the
intellect on sound lines or teaches folk to think clearly. In one
form or other it is a common plea of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists. Well,
@ -891,12 +891,12 @@ or absurdity of the creed that drives them out.</p>
<p> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> with considerable general knowledge and mental
vitality will generally be found to take the creed with great
license. <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pius X</ent>, the peasant-<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, in his blundering campaign
license. <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Pius X, the peasant-<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, in his blundering campaign
against Modernism was at least honest in trying to drive all these
people -- the real "bad <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>" -- out of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and there
was a notable exodus of cultivated people. Unlike the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n
apologist the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> did not care two pins about cultural quality. He
wanted folk who recited the creed every Sunday to mean what they
wanted folk who recited the creed every <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> to mean what they
said. But every history of that campaign will tell you that while
a few conscientious men like <ent type='PERSON'>Tyrell</ent> walked out the great majority
protected themselves by silence or, if they were in official
@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ only these but such works as the Encyclopedia of Education, the
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and the Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics, which ought to give the facts on this
important social-moral issue, are completely silent, I look for the
clerical censor. To adapt a phrase of <ent type='PERSON'>Huxley</ent>'s, there is a
clerical censor. To adapt a phrase of Huxley's, there is a
barricade to sociological research with the notice: "No Road, by
Order of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>."</p>
@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ that this means that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics
criminal population by 247 per 100000 of their body. Even the
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, to which large numbers of convicts profess to
belong (since officials insist on some creed) whether they do or
not, had only 118 per 100000. The <ent type='NORP'>Methodists</ent> had 10, the <ent type='NORP'>Baptists</ent>
not, had only 118 per 100000. The Methodists had 10, the <ent type='NORP'>Baptists</ent>
9, per 100000.</p>
<p> In 1913 I discussed the subject in his office with my friend
@ -1021,9 +1021,9 @@ English figures given above include a strong <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> elemen
<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Liverpool</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Newcastle</ent>, etc. -- let him study the statistics
of crime in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries. It is impossible to get complete
figures, as <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries, being less efficient in such
matters than <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> countries, rarely gave reliable statistics
until, recently (if at all), but the data in <ent type='PERSON'>Mulhall</ent>'s Dictionary
of Statistics for the last century and <ent type='ORG'>Webb</ent>'s continuation of the
matters than Protestant countries, rarely gave reliable statistics
until, recently (if at all), but the data in Mulhall's Dictionary
of Statistics for the last century and Webb's continuation of the
same work for the first decade of this century fully confirm the
truth as far as they go. Whatever allowance you make for different
standards of classification and degrees of police efficiency, the
@ -1049,16 +1049,16 @@ but <ent type='PERSON'>Mulhall</ent> gives authoritative tables. From these we l
since 1840 grave crime has been reduced to one-third of what it
used to be though the population has nearly trebled. Other social
offenses have been reduced in the same proportion. <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> has the
next best record in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, especially since 1880, when education
next best record in Europe, especially since 1880, when education
was taken out of the hands of the clergy, the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> was shut out
of public life, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> fell to one-sixth or one-seventh of
the population.. <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, where until the last few years <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>
claimed to be a third, and were at all events more than a fourth,
of the population, has a less flattering record; but it is better
in <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> than in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> provinces. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> had one
of the worst crime records in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> until the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> was deprived
in Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> than in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> provinces. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> had one
of the worst crime records in Europe until the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> was deprived
of secular rule in 1870, and it fell back -- as any, person can see
by the official <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> figures in the <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>man's Year Book --
by the official <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> figures in the Statesman's Year Book --
into a terrible increase of crime when <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> handed back the
schools to the clergy.</p>
@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
.
<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
<p>present book. The government of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> is confronted
<p>present book. The government of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States is confronted
with a claim that it must pay special heed to a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> who has
300000000 subjects and a national <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> which is not
only the largest religious body but the finest educational and
@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ include religion amongst the factors of civilization, and our
politicians, journalists, and essayists are quite sure of it. But
in an age in which most other statistics are precise to a doctrinal
point the statistics which bear upon this question are grossly
neglected. We saw this in regard to the number of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s and
neglected. We saw this in regard to the number of Catholic's and
the relation of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism to crime. It is the same in regard to
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and illiteracy; and, I Might add, in regard to
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and drink, illegitimacy, and other relevant matters.</p>
@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ backward countries are more apt today, when a high percentage of
illiteracy is a reproach, to give a false or arbitrary figure. Some
countries again include infants among the illiterate, some only
citizens over the age of 5, 10, or 15. With an allowance for their
difficulties I reproduce the table from the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> University
difficulties I reproduce the table from the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> University
Encyclopedia of Education (article "Illiteracy") which is the most
reliable authority and the most recent, fairly full list I can
find. It has the advantage also that in nearly every case the
@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<p> One other caution is necessary. There are no annual reports on
this point. The leading civilizations boast of their very low
percentage of illiterates, but backward nations are coy, and you
get little help from the usual year-books such as the <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>man's
get little help from the usual year-books such as the Statesman's
Year Book and World Almanac. This list therefore relates to the
situation in the first decade of the present century. That has its
advantages, and I will point out presently the immense alterations
@ -1210,14 +1210,14 @@ etc.). But first let me give this impartially compiled list:</p>
percent of percent of
Country population Country population
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> (over 20) 0.03 <ent type='GPE'>Serbia</ent> (over 20) 36
<ent type='GPE'>Denmark</ent> 0.2 <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent> 40
<ent type='GPE'>Denmark</ent> 0.2 Hungary 40
<ent type='GPE'>Sweden</ent> (over 20) 0.3 <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> 48
<ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent> (over 20) 0.5 <ent type='GPE'>Argentina</ent> 54
<ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent> (over 20) 1.4 <ent type='GPE'>Greece</ent> 57
<ent type='GPE'>Finland</ent> 1-5 <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> 58
<ent type='GPE'>Scotland</ent> (over 20) 1.6 <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent> 59
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Wales</ent> 1.7 Rumania 61
United <ent type='GPE'>States</ent> (negroes <ent type='GPE'>Bulgaria</ent> 65
United States (negroes <ent type='GPE'>Bulgaria</ent> 65
and immigrants) 7.7 <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> 70
<ent type='GPE'>France</ent> 14 <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> 73
<ent type='GPE'>Ireland</ent> 17
@ -1245,10 +1245,10 @@ selected by men, but by the highest educational authority in the
<ent type='GPE'>United Sates</ent>, you have the facts, and they make a mockery of the
claim that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is the mother or inspiration of
education. They show that it is, on the contrary, the enemy of
education. It professes a zeal for it only when a large non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> majority watches it critically. In the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> table all
education. It professes a zeal for it only when a large non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> majority watches it critically. In the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> table all
countries with less than 2 percent had small <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> minorities of
no public influence in 1900. <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> is an exception but,
notoriously, it was <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> that forced the educational
notoriously, it was Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent> that forced the educational
development. On the other hand all countries with over 30 percent </p>
<p> Bank of Wisdom
@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ majorities; and the higher the figure of illiterates the higher the
majorities or (as in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>) had recently secularized education.</p>
<p> If I were able to give the full figures for all countries of
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> they would be in harmony with the above. <ent type='GPE'>Norway</ent>
Europe and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> they would be in harmony with the above. <ent type='GPE'>Norway</ent>
has little illiteracy: the <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Republics generally have
a high percentage. So the plain teaching of facts is that where the
clergy have, or until recently had, great influence on the
@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ where an occasional rise to power of the <ent type='NORP'>Liberals</ent> had at
more for education than was done in more priest-ridden <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>. I
found that the real proportion of illiterates was said by eminent
educationists to be 68 percent (78 in <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>), not 58 as reported
by <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent>, but what was called "literacy" was often so ridiculous
by <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent>, but what was called "literacy" was often so ridiculous
an accomplishment that the figure of percentage meant little.
Teachers received -- when they were paid -- $100 per year, but the
state would not pay it, and the parents generally refused. A law
@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ necessary to be quite clear that the reduction of illiteracy in
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> countries points to no zeal on the part of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> but
to the pressure of critics. Study the language used by the <ent type='ORG'>Vichy</ent>
group of pious traitors today. Petain is honest, if senile, and
must embarrass the <ent type='NORP'>Darlans</ent> and Lavals, if not <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. He sees
must embarrass the <ent type='NORP'>Darlans</ent> and Lavals, if not the Vatican. He sees
a monstrous evil in the industrial development, the growth of a
large educated urban population that very soon sees through the
imposture of the priests. The world must return to the placid,
@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ bovine, agricultural life, so that it can be more easily ruled by
the priests and squires.</p>
<p> We must make short work of this point, and fortunately it is
easy to do so. Glance at <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> in 1800, or at the date of the
easy to do so. Glance at Europe in 1800, or at the date of the
<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent>, I have shown elsewhere that except in three
countries 95 percent at least of the workers were illiterate and </p>
@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<ent type='GPE'>ROME</ent> PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE</p>
<p>incredibly ignorant. The three countries of which I make an
exception were <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>, Great
exception were Protestant <ent type='GPE'>Prussia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>, Great
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> was the next to become civilized in this respect, but its
clergy had been little better than the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> priests, and in 1800
certainly more than 90 percent of the worker's were illiterate. In
@ -1337,18 +1337,18 @@ educating the workers. The leaders in the reform -- Frederick the
Great, Tallyrand, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Roberi <ent type='PERSON'>Owen</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Bentham</ent>, etc.
-- were all skeptics. Once <ent type='ORG'>the Holy Alliance</ent> and the true <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent> or
Anti-<ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent> of those days, had extinguished idealism for the
<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>ern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> all this itching to educate the workers
<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent>ern Europe all this itching to educate the workers
was destroyed and the priests settled down everywhere to a renewed
lease, as they thought, of their medieval power and exploitation of
the people. It will be enough to consider the case of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, one-third of which was ruled by the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s and administered almost
exclusively by priests, while the southern section in addition was
in the closest touch with and subservient to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>.</p>
in the closest touch with and subservient to the Vatican.</p>
<p> The southern part of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, the kingdom of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, is as
conspicuous a monument of the real <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> spirit as the Statue of
Liberty is of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n ideals. Before the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent>
<ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>irean statesmen and a liberal-minded monarch had made it one
of the most progressive areas in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The troops of the
of the most progressive areas in Europe. The troops of the
<ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent> overran all <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and strengthened the anti-clerical
humanitarianism of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>. But when they were forced to withdraw,
the royalty and clergy, acting in the closest collaboration, had a
@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ decade packed in the horrible jails. All educational and social
work was, of course, extinguished. The party which had advocated
such work and had had even in so small a kingdom at least half a
million followers also was extinguished, and the region became one
of the most backward in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. And our elegant essayists instead
of the most backward in Europe. And our elegant essayists instead
of looking up this bloody story of the extinction of sound stocks,
which our manuals of history will not tell today from fear of
offending <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>, talk in their charming way about the
@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ is, on the contrary, the work of priests.</p>
<p> The kingdom of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s in Central <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> was just as bad. It
was, according to all authorities, one of the foulest areas in
<ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> from the moral-social angle. It will be enough to quote the
Europe from the moral-social angle. It will be enough to quote the
official figures for 1901, when the national government had been
conducting for 30 years such educational work as the poor resources
permitted. Still 44 percent of <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s over the age of 20 were
@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<p>Sardinian government which succeeded them had done more, the
illiterate's were 28.3 percent; and the statesmen who had thus
reduced illiteracy were under the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s ban of excommunication. In
reduced illiteracy were under the Pope's ban of excommunication. In
the central and formerly Papal provinces (including <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>) the
illiterates were 51.5 percent, and in the southern provinces they
were 69.7 percent. In <ent type='GPE'>Piedmont</ent>, the old center of the damned
@ -1398,13 +1398,13 @@ percent.</p>
<p> Well, there's the real <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> for you. That is what the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> does for education, when it runs a state or has, as in
<ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, absolute power over the kingdom. You will find these
figures in any of the older works of reference -- the <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent>
figures in any of the older works of reference -- the <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent>
Encyclopedia, we saw, gives 48 percent for the whole country -- and
the facts about the condition of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s own kingdom are in
the facts about the condition of the Pope's own kingdom are in
every older historian, even in the standard <ent type='GPE'>Cambridge</ent> Modern
History (Vol XI). Your historians and sociologists of today won't
tell them. It would hurt the feelings of our <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> fellow-citizens -- to say nothing of hurting the circulation of the book.
So the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists break into raptures about the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s
So the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists break into raptures about the Church's
zeal for education, about the way in which this misguided modern
world thwarts its noble efforts to teach folk to think clearly,
about the fearlessness with which it confronts all facts and all
@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ come back to the refusal to educate; and <ent type='GPE'>Brazil</ent> is today t
area on the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Continent for the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> persecution of
idealists. Add the <ent type='GPE'>Philippines</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Belgian</ent>, and
<ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent> colonies. Notice how the little states which <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> is
permitting <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to set up in the wilderness his troops make
permitting the Vatican to set up in the wilderness his troops make
-- <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, etc. -- are patches of deep <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and
dense illiteracy. Read how the moment a state falls back under
priestly domination, after a spell of anti-clerical control its
@ -1435,9 +1435,9 @@ and <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GP
their friends the priests to power. <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> loves the illiterate. They
are so easily persuaded to burn heretics and kiss bogus relics.</p>
<p> Above all examine carefully this sacred fury of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
<p> Above all examine carefully this sacred fury of the Vatican
against <ent type='ORG'>Reds</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent>, or <ent type='NORP'>Bolsheviks</ent>. As I have earlier pointed
out, <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> dare not say that its anger is kindled by the
out, the Vatican dare not say that its anger is kindled by the
political and economic theory of the <ent type='NORP'>Marxists</ent>; nor can we suppose
it to be particularly interested in their choice of a color. The
bitter hostility to them which was roused by the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s throughout </p>
@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ to undo the work in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and he blessed the savage vanda
his allies in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, where for three years educational progress had
commanded the respect of all experts. There remained two countries
in which education was making rapid progress, <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>,
and <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the whole <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> continued to shriek for
and the Vatican and the whole <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> continued to shriek for
the blood of these.</p>
<p> It is not a point on which I can linger here, but I say, and
@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ have proved in earlier works (especially in the Appeal to Reason
Library), that the most rapid and devoted work in the world in
educating the workers was found ten years ago in <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>,
<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, and that there is no dispute on that point in
paedagogical literature. We have seen what <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> did in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
paedagogical literature. We have seen what the Vatican did in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>
and <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent> and tried to get done in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>. I say again that the
most wonderful educational work in all history was being done in
<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, as leading educationists in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> admitted, and the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ They claim a privileged position in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> on the ground
are the largest religious body in the country and their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is
the largest and most important in the world. On the first point we
reflect that the fact that <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> form one-eighth -- it is
probably nearer one-tenth -- of the population of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
probably nearer one-tenth -- of the population of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States
seems an amazing reason for seeking, as they do, to interfere with
the lives and literature of the non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> seven-eighths and for
thinking that they ought to be consulted by the head of the state. </p>
@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
<p>That they do so interfere we have seen in every chapter. They
dictated policy on <ent type='EVENT'>the Civil War</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and attempted to dictate
it in regard to: <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and the <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an War. They fly at medical
it in regard to: <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> and the European War. They fly at medical
and civic authorities who would relieve non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> mothers of
excessive child-bearing, take the lead in fomenting racial
bitterness against the <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>, dominate the school-system (even non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>) in some cities, arrogate a most insolent control of
@ -1552,17 +1552,17 @@ different perspective. The fact is, apparently, that of the
90000000 are totally illiterate. Turn back to the table I gave.
Taking one <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n Republic with another the gross
illiteracy of the whole 80000000 people is over 60 percent. The
Encyclopedia <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> 68, <ent type='GPE'>Nicaragua</ent> 60, and so on.
Encyclopedia <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>na gives <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> 68, <ent type='GPE'>Nicaragua</ent> 60, and so on.
For the whole, 60 percent is moderate, and it will hardly be
disputed that these illiterates are not the millions of workers
who, joined by many men of a middle-class which has a long
tradition of anti-clericalism, made <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> shudder 10 years
tradition of anti-clericalism, made the Vatican shudder 10 years
ago. You can very safely say that 50000000 adult <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> from
<ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Patagonia</ent> are as illiterate as babies of a weird and
wonderful ignorance. The state of <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent>
possession's is as bad, and particularly all the illiterates of
<ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> are good <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>. Add the millions of the
<ent type='NORP'>Philippine</ent> Islands, the <ent type='GPE'>West Indies</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>,
<ent type='NORP'>Philippine</ent> Islands, the West Indies, <ent type='GPE'>Croatia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>,
Eire, and the foreign missions. The grand total of illiterate
subjects of the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> must approach 100000000. Add these to the
50000000 under the age of ten.</p>
@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ one or two cities, were, of course, like the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> sch
today, to prevent their own children from going to the pagan
schools. And there is no more dispute about the fact that the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
school system was entirely destroyed when the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> obtained
power over <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, and that during the next five centuries you
power over Europe, and that during the next five centuries you
could count on your fingers the schools existing at any time.</p>
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@ -1642,10 +1642,10 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
Dark Age "preserved the classics for us." lt took <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> scholars
nearly two centuries to dig up such <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> classics as we have, and
some of these and all the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> classics were not preserved at all
in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. The leaders of this enterprise -- <ent type='PERSON'>Petrarch</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Boccaccio</ent>,
in Europe. The leaders of this enterprise -- <ent type='PERSON'>Petrarch</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Boccaccio</ent>,
etc. -- despised the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>s, and the work was nearly complete when
the first <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> to take an interest in it, the not very religious
<ent type='PERSON'>Engenius IV</ent>, mounted the Papal throne.</p>
<ent type='ORG'>Engenius</ent> IV, mounted the Papal throne.</p>
<p> Well, says the apologist, these classics were in very large
part, if not for the most part, erotic poetry and comedy -- the
@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ works of <ent type='PERSON'>Aristotle</ent> were got from the <ent type='NORP'>A
the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>s -- and the revival led to a terrible lot of immorality.
Was that why the good monks preserved them? Never mind that, says,
your apologist, but think of the zeal for schools and learning
which beyond any question swept <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> (except <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, let me
which beyond any question swept Europe (except <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, let me
interject) from the 11th Century onward.</p>
<p> As my <ent type='PERSON'>Peter Abelard</ent> (1901) is one of the chief studies of the
@ -1679,11 +1679,11 @@ school-men, as it has been discovered that the inspirational ideas
of the <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='EVENT'>Revolution</ent> and Constitution came from them. Yes --
discovered by <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists. I confess that it always puzzled
me why they could not fake a better mare's nest to discover for
this purpose than the works by <ent type='PERSON'>Cardinal Bellarmine</ent> until I learned
that the chief reason was that one of <ent type='ORG'>Bellarmine</ent>'s books was found
in <ent type='GPE'>Jefferson</ent>'s library. My godfathers! When I die, in a few years,
this purpose than the works by Cardinal <ent type='ORG'>Bellarmine</ent> until I learned
that the chief reason was that one of Bellarmine's books was found
in Jefferson's library. My godfathers! When I die, in a few years,
they will find in my little library many works of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> or
<ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> piety, some on <ent type='NORP'>Hindu</ent> metaphysics or Theosophy, the
Protestant piety, some on <ent type='NORP'>Hindu</ent> metaphysics or Theosophy, the
Little Flower of St. Fraieis, the Bible in three or four languages,
Rabelais, Mark Twain's description of conversation at <ent type='ORG'>the Court</ent> of
Queen Elizabeth. . . . I will take up the point seriously in the
@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ practically all <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> works written from the 2nd Centu
13th Century are contained in the immense Migne Collection. I
should say that the only work in that collection of 1000 years of
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> learning that anybody reads today, in translation, is
<ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>'s City of God, and very few read that. Few literary men
Augustine's City of God, and very few read that. Few literary men
would shed a tear if the rest were burned.</p>
<p> Anyhow, take a good short history of literature; and literary
@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ science until the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> snuffed them out. The work is, li
history of literature, really divided into three parts: <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>,
<ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Persian</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>Modern Science</ent>. As to the pioneers of the modern
development -- <ent type='PERSON'>Vesalius</ent> and Pare, Galileo and <ent type='PERSON'>Torricelli</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent> and
<ent type='PERSON'>Galvani</ent>, etc. -- no one really knows what most of them thought
Galvani, etc. -- no one really knows what most of them thought
about <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>ry. They lived in an age when men of science adapted the
counsel of St. Paul and said: It is better to go to church than to
be burned.</p>
@ -1789,13 +1789,13 @@ minor chemists and mathematicians in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, none in <ent
the most authoritative biographers, men like <ent type='ORG'>Pasteur</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Fabre</ent>,
Mendel, and <ent type='PERSON'>Marenni</ent>.</p>
<p> But did not <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> welcome science by founding a great
<p> But did not the Vatican welcome science by founding a great
astronomical observatory? Yes, in the day's when it was still
understood that "the heavens proclaim the glory of God." At all
events the observatory, of which you do not hear much today,
proclaims the glory of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. Was not <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII</ent> enthusiastic
proclaims the glory of the Vatican. Was not <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII</ent> enthusiastic
for historical science, in spite of his ignorance in it, and did he
not throw open <ent type='ORG'>the Secret Archives</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to the world's
not throw open <ent type='ORG'>the Secret Archives</ent> of the Vatican to the world's
scholars? Yes. After -- as the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> historian Dr. Pastor tells
us -- removing the more compromising documents. Doesn't the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> spend hundreds of millions on education? Yes, in its own
@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ of paedagogy.</p>
<p> But let the apologists speak. One of their chief propaganda
bodies in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is the Calvert Association. and Dr. N. Murray
Butler of <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> and other <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n scholars generously sponsor
Butler of <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> and other <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n scholars generously sponsor
it. Its chief publication is The Calvert Handbook of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
Facts. This has a section titled "Great <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>." You will hardly
believe me when I say that besides a few army officers it lists
@ -1817,7 +1817,7 @@ business-bandits!</p>
<ent type='LOC'>the Middle Ages</ent> in search of great men (Ferdinand of <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, etc.)
I find it lists as great <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>ns who were <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> only Thomas,
Lloyd, J.J. Montgomery, and <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>. What, you never heard of them?
For the last 200 years of world-science it gives <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Galvani</ent>,
For the last 200 years of world-science it gives <ent type='ORG'>Volta</ent>, Galvani,
Ampere (who vacillated all his life between skepticism and </p>
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