Infidels................................................................ 296 CRIMINALS TO 100,000 POPULATION. Catholics.............................................................. 2,500 Church of England............................................... 1,400 Dissenters............................................................ 150 Infidels................................................................ 5 These statistics are taken from the report of the British Parliament, which, for learning and intelligence, as a deliberative body, has not its superior, if it has its equal, in the world, and it is surely a sufficiently Christian body to be accepted as authority in this matter, since a large number of its members are clergymen. These statistics hardly sustain the allegation that "Infidelity is coupled with impurity." We are willing to stand upon our record. But, lest it be claimed that this is a British peculiarity, allow me to defer to the patriotic sentiment of my readers by one other little set of tables which, while not complete, is equally as suggestive. "In sixty-six different prisons, jails, reformatories, refuges, penitentiaries, and lock-ups there were, for the years given in reports, 41,335 men and boys, women and girls, of the following religious sects: Catholics.................................................................. 16,431 Church of England.................................................... 9,975 Eighteen other Protestant denominations.................... 14,811 Universalists............................................................. 5 Jews, Chinese, and Mormons..................................... 110 Infidels (two so-called, one avowed)............................ 3 "These included the prisons of Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, and Canada." Present these two tables to those who assure you that crime follows in the wake of Infidelity, and you will have time to take a comfortable nap before your Christian friend returns to the attack or braces up after the shock sustained by his sentiments and inflicted by these two small but truly suggestive tables. One cold fact like this will inoculate one of the faithful with more modesty than an hour of usual argument based upon the assumptions of the clergy and the ignorance of his hearers. Infidels are not perfect. Many of them need reconstruction sadly, but the above data seem to indicate that they compare rather favorably with their fellow-men in the matter of good citizenship. Appendix T. "Moreover, as Goethe has already shown, the celebrated Mosaic moral precepts, the so-called Ten Commandments, were _not_ upon the tables upon which Moses wrote the laws of the covenant which God made with his people.