THE OUTPUT OF GREAT MEN 



495 



output of great men whose labours have rendered their nations 

 illustrious. It will be found, no matter how fervently the priest- 

 hood inculcate a reverence for thrift, law and authority, that, of 

 any two communities, the more orthodox is almost invariably the 

 more poverty-stricken, the more turbulent, and the more savagely 

 governed. All orthodox communities are flourishing in proportion 

 to the number of heretics they include. Wherever the heretical 

 (e.g. Protestants) and the orthodox (e.g. Greek Churchmen) mingle 

 on equal terms, the former tend to be the more law-abiding and to 

 occupy the more responsible and lucrative posts, whereas the latter 

 tend to become hewers of wood and drawers of water. The great 

 men produced by orthodox communities are relatively very few, 



demonstrate, for example, the injurious effects of secular education, compare 

 material derived from localities (e.g. new colonies) that are undergoing rapid 

 change with data gathered from places where an old order standeth. Nor should 

 the statistics of the country be compared without reservation with those of the 

 town. Rural populations always tend to be the more law-abiding (see 523). 

 Here are some statistics of murder from an author (see Crime and its Causes, by 

 the Rev. W. D. Morrison) who attributes crime to climate, but who has neglected 

 to compare the relative amount of crime in Australasia and South America, both of 

 which have warm climates : 



Population over 

 tea years of age. 



Tried. 



Per 



.000 in- 



z.1 ii~.ui; -. 



Convicted. 



?-r 



.000 



habitants 



Italy . 

 Austria . 



France . 

 Belgium 

 England 

 Ireland . 

 Scotland 

 Spain . 



Germany 



23,408,277 



11/144470 



^.:--.S:; 



I&S94053 



1883-6 



1882-6 

 1881-5 



[0,321,558 



:>>:-o 

 1883-6 

 [882-6 

 [882-6 



3,606 



wm 







129 

 60 



1,584 



15^0 



---5 



3-35 



2.II 

 11.91 



1. 10 



1.61 



2,805 

 499 

 580 

 101 



_: 

 1,085 



"Is 



476 



11.98 

 2.90 

 3-87 



0.76 



1^0 



0.74 



8.16 



5-78 



0.88 



The population of England and Wales is now in the neighbourhood of thirty-five 

 Probably the Anglicans number about fifteen millions, the Noncon- 

 formists about the same, while the Roman Church claims about a million and a half. 

 |The prison population, March 28, 1906, was 21,580. Of this total the Anglicans 

 'are returned as contributing 16,089, the Nonconformists 1,094, and the Catholics 

 (Parfa'mtmmtmt) Retttr* on Prisons t Religious Cnsds of Prisoners, April 

 1906). Doubtless, the numbers assigned to the Anglicans are too high and those 

 I to the Nonconformists too low. Prisoners, like soldiers, tend to " follow the band." 

 In Scotland, at the same date, Catholics, a small minority, contributed 971 to a 

 population of 2,812. 



