A cycle of homilies on the virtue of tolerance could add nothing to the simple lesson which these two clergymen gave to the adherents of both their creeds.

I felt as I went on my way that night that I had had a glimpse into the kind of future for Ireland towards which my fellow-workers are striving.
It is, however, with the religion of the majority of the Irish people and with its influence upon the industrial character of its adherents that I am chiefly concerned.

Roman Catholicism strikes an outsider as being in some of its tendencies non-economic, if not actually anti-economic.

These tendencies have, of course, much fuller play when they act on a people whose education has (through no fault of their own) been retarded or stunted.

The fact is not in dispute, but the difficulty arises when we come to apportion the blame between ignorance on the part of the people and a somewhat one-sided religious zeal on the part of large numbers of their clergy.