5/38 Her money will go to propagating the faith. Her children will supply the English-speaking world with a superfluity of priests and nuns. Other lands have been loved sincerely, devotedly, passionately, as mothers, wives, and mistresses are loved. Ireland alone has been loved religiously, as men are taught to love God or the saints. Her lovers have called themselves Catholic or Protestant: such distinctions have not mattered to these men. |