Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe
CHAPTER VIII.
FANATICISM--ITS DEFINITION--FANATICISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Connexion between fanaticism and religious feeling--Impossibility of destroying it--Means of diminishing it--The Church has used these means, and with what result?--Observations on the pretended Catholic fanatics--Description of the religious excitement of the founders of orders in the Church, 57