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Roman Cathplics ; 4, Catholic B, including all Eastern Catholics ; 5, Nominally Christian, but in many particulars reverting to the patriarchal Jewish type, namely, the Latter-Day Saints, or Mor- mons; 6, Non-Christian monotheistic, principally Jews; 7, All others.

This scale, expressive of popular judgment, may be tested, as we tested the scale for nationalities, by assigning unit marks to objective facts, one at least of which can be affirmed of all the religious groups, and all of which can be affirmed of at least one group. It will be found that the following facts meet these conditions, and we therefore assign a unit mark to each one: (i) Radical in doctrine; (2) Radical in government; (3) Prot- estant; (4) Holding to Western European Christian tradition; (5) Holding to general European Christian tradition; (6) Hold- ing to generic Christian tradition; (7) Monotheistic; (8) The- istic.

Assigning these units of marking to the various groups of religious bodies found in the United States, we get the following ratings :

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The marking-scale applied to conduct is an inheritance from the earliest days of civilization, and is substantially the same throughout the civilized world. Its gradations designate ob- jectionable, rather than commendable, qualities of behavior. To