[Footnote 36: _Church and World_, 1867.] {60} The particulars of the statistics throw a good deal of light on the morality of the different countries, for instance, in France and England. The rate of illegitimacy in all England and Wales is 6.5 London only 4.2 Birmingham, 4.7 Liverpool, 4.9 In spite of the "numerous and varied temptations" of the large towns, the rate is much less in them than in the country, which runs after this fashion: Nottingham, 8.9 York, N. Riding, 8.9 Salop, 9.8 Westmoreland, 9.7 Norfolk, 10.7 Cumberland, 11.4 In France, it is just the other way. The rate is, In all France, 7.8 In Paris, 27. Urban districts, 12. Rural districts 4.2 La Vendée, 2.2 Brittany, Dep't. Cote D'Or, 1.2 Brittany and La Vendee remained Catholic through the storm of the French Revolution, and at this moment are thoroughly so. In Austria, the rate is: whole empire, only 9; urban districts, from 25 to 65; therefore, rural districts cannot be more than 5 or 6. Prussia gives us, perhaps, the most conclusive test of the effects of religion on morals; for the census has been carefully taken according to creed, for many years, with uniform result thus. There are over 11,000,000 Protestants, and over 7,000,000 Catholics, principally in the Rhine provinces, Westphalia, and Posen. [Footnote 37] The rate Among Catholics, 6.48 Among Protestants, 10.0 Westphalia, 3.7 Prov. of Prussia, 6.7 Rhineland, 3.3 Pomerania, 10.3 Posen 6.8 Brandenburg, 12.0 [Footnote 37: _Historische Blätter_, 9th Heft, 1867.]