| CATHOLIC. | PR. CT. | POPULATION IN MILLIONS. |
| Baden | 16.2 | 1.43 |
| Bavaria | 22.5 | 4.81 |
| Belgium | 7.2 | 4.98 |
| France | 7.2 | 38.07 |
| Austria | 11.1 | 34.98 |
| Italy | 5.1 | 24.23 |
| Spain | 5.5 | 15.67 |
| Average | 8.4 | 124.17 |
The New Englander has been quite hard on us for classing Holland and Switzerland, in which there are very large Catholic minorities, as mixed countries, and remanded them with an air of injured innocence forthwith into the Protestant column, where it will be observed they present an uncommonly good appearance, being the lowest on the list. We have shown by documentary evidence that in Prussia in 1864, when there was a Catholic minority of thirty-eight per cent, the rate of illegitimacy was brought down by it from 10 to 8.46, or, in other words, if all the Catholics could be removed at once out of the land, the rate of Prussia would stand 10, whereas it appears now 8.6. For this reason we thought fit to make some distinction, lest there should be any strutting around in borrowed plumes, and to form a table of mixed countries. We shall, therefore, carefully avoiding any further wounding of the delicate susceptibilities of the New Englander, append a table, making allowances for the minorities on both sides, coming just as near to the exact truth as it is possible:
[Table of Illegitimacy], including Majorities and Minorities.
| PR. CT. | PROT. POP. IN MILL'S. | CATH. POP. IN MILL'S. | |
| Holland | 4.0 | 2.01 | 1.23 |
| Italy | 5.1 | .33 | 23.90 |
| Spain | 5.5 | .12 | 15.55 |
| Switzerland | 5.5 | 1.48 | 1.02 |
| Catholics in Prussia | 6.5 | — | 7.20 |
| England and Wales | 6.5 | 19.00 | 1.20 |
| France | 7.2 | .77 | 34.93 |
| Belgium | 7.2 | .02 | 4.97 |
| Sweden and Norway | 9.6 | 5.81 | — |
| Protestants in Prussia | 10.0 | 11.74 | — |
| Scotland | 10.1 | 3.00 | .16 |
| Denmark | 11 | 2.73 | — |
| Austria | 11.1 | 3.45 | 26.73 |
| German States | 14.8 | 5.88 | .52 |
| Würtemberg | 16.4 | 1.20 | .53 |
| Mean Protestants | 8.3 | 57.54 | 117.94 |
| Mean Catholics | 7.4 |
To sum up, we have for our final result:
New Englander's Averages.
| Protestant | 8.8 | |
| Catholic | 11.7; | or, omitting Italy and Spain 14.5 |
True Averages.
| Protestant | 8.3 |
| Catholic | 7.4 |
Here we are glad to end the general investigation, and to show that, if we are not very much better than our neighbors, we are not any worse, and are not to be hounded down with the cry of vice and immorality by a set of Pharisees who are constantly lauding their own superiority, and thanking God they are so much better than we poor Catholics.