Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe

CHAPTER XXV.

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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