────────────┬────────────────────────┬────────┬───────────┬─────────── │ │ │ Catholics │Protestants │ │Suicides│ per │ per ──── │ COUNTRY. │ per │ Thousand │ Thousand │ │Million │ of │ of │ │ │Inhabitants│Inhabitants ────────────┼────────────────────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────── {│Spain │ 19 │ 999 │ 1 Catholic {│Portugal │ 16 │ 999 │ 1 Countries {│Italy │ 44 │ 995 │ 2 {│Belgium │ 90 │ 996 │ 4 {│France │ 216 │ 982 │ 16 │ │ │ │ Mixed {│Ireland │ 24 │ 757 │ 234 Catholics {│Bavaria │ 102 │ 713 │ 275 prevail {│Lower Alsace │ 130 │ 642 │ 322 {│Baden │ 157 │ 648 │ 331 │ │ │ │ {│Holland, South │ 50 │ 367 │ 613 Mixed {│Prussia │ 168 │ 331 │ 651 Protestants{│Holland, North │ 54 │ 278 │ 663 prevail {│Wurtemburg │ 172 │ 304 │ 687 {│Black Forest │ 160 │ 259 │ 736 {│Oldenburgh │ 200 │ 228 │ 764 │ │ │ │ {│Swiss Protestant Cantons│ 279 │ 68 │ 922 {│England │ 74 │ 53 │ 946 Protestant {│Hanover │ 150 │ 29 │ 960 Countries {│Saxony │ 469 │ 21 │ 976 {│Denmark │ 265 │ 1 │ 999 {│Sweden │ 101 │ 0 │ 1,000 {│Norway │ 75 │ 0 │ 1,000 ────────────┴────────────────────────┴────────┴───────────┴─────────── The Protestant Religion, more than any other, is the Religion of Idea; Faith, Hope, and Charity, all ideals, are its aims; it refuses all material assistance; neither image, nor cross, nor beads, is an essential. The Protestant is taught to educate his consciousness, and is responsible alone for his own actions; he cannot lean on the reed of comfort from Masses, or on the idea that a confession of his sins to a priest absolves him from the result of them. Protestantism tends to develop individual research into its doctrines, self-reflection, and inward communings with one’s consciousness.