Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe
CHAPTER XXV.
THE PASSION OF LOVE.
Pretended rigor of Catholicity with respect to unhappy marriages--Two systems of governing the passions--Protestant system--Catholic system--Examples--Passion of gambling--Explosion of the passions in time of public troubles--Of the passion of love--Its inconstancy--Marriage alone is not a sufficient control--What is wanted to make it a control--Of the unity and fixity of Catholic doctrine--Conclusion, 140