From this standpoint let us try to make a dispassionate survey of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in Ireland, and see wherein their votaries fulfil, or fail to fulfil, their mission in advancing our common civilisation.

Let us examine, in a word, not merely the direct influence which the creed of each of the two sections of Irishmen produces on the industrial character of its adherents, but also its indirect effects upon the mutual relations and regard for each other of Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Protestantism has its stronghold in the great industrial centres of the North and among the Presbyterian farmers of five or six Ulster counties.
These communities, it is significant to note, have developed the essentially strenuous qualities which, no doubt, they brought from England and Scotland.

In city life their thrift, industry, and enterprise, unsurpassed in the United Kingdom, have built up a world-wide commerce.

In rural life they have drawn the largest yield from relatively infertile soil.

Such, in brief, is the achievement of Ulster Protestantism in the realm of industry.