In the wild district where I lived we slept with unlocked door and open windows, with as much security as if we had been--I will not say in London or New York, I should be sorry to try the experiment in either place: I will say as if we had been among the saints in Paradise.

In the sixteenth century the Irish were notoriously regardless of what is technically morality.
For the last hundred years at least impurity has been almost unknown in Ireland.

And this absence of vulgar crime, and this exceptional delicacy and modesty of character, are due alike, to their ever- lasting honour, to the influence of the Catholic clergy." That is the testimony of an opponent, and it is emphatic testimony indeed.
To O'Connell Froude is again conspicuously unjust, and his remark that "a few attacks on handfuls of the police, or the blowing in of the walls of an English prison.

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