Excerpt from Catholic Nations and Protestant Nations: Compared in Their Threefold Relations to Wealth, Knowledge, and Morality Good deeds are the result of truth; evil is the result of false hood; two modes of expressing the same idea. The true and the good are intimately connected, or, to speak more correctly, they are but one. All understand what is meant by true, but what do we mean by good? It will be useful here to explain. Morality, knowledge, wealth, are, in our estimation, three things good in themselves, and for all mankind. If the reader dispute this assertion, it will be well to pause here; for upon this all our argument rests as upon an axiom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.