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    PROTESTANTISM

    AND

    CATHOLICITY

    COMPARED IN THEIR

    EFFECTS ON THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE.


    WRITTEN IN SPANISH

    BY THE REV. J. BALMES.

    TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

    Second Edition.


    BALTIMORE:
    PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO.
    No. 178 MARKET STREET.
    PITTSBURG: GEORGE QUIGLEY.
    _Sold by Booksellers generally._
    1851.


 ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen
 hundred and fifty, by JOHN MURPHY & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the
 District Court of Maryland.




AUTHOR'S PREFACE.


Among the many and important evils which have been the necessary
result of the profound revolutions of modern times, there appears a
good extremely valuable to science, and which will probably have a
beneficial influence on the human race,--I mean the love of studies
having for their object man and society. The shocks have been so rude,
that the earth has, as it were, opened under our feet; and the human
mind, which, full of pride and haughtiness, but lately advanced on a
triumphal car amid acclamations and cries of victory, has been alarmed
and stopped in its career. Absorbed by an important thought, overcome
by a profound reflection, it has asked itself, "What am I? whence do I
come? what is my destination?" Religious questions have regained their
high importance; and