(Vol. iv., p. 382.)
I have a memorandum (not dated) which states that M. Pradt, in his work
on _Ancient and Modern Jesuitism_, gives curious calculations on the
religious statistics of the world. The terrestrial globe, he estimates,
contains 670,000,000 inhabitants, who are thus divided:--
Catholics 120,000,000
Protestants and their dependants 40,000,000
Of the Greek Church 36,000,000
Jews 4,000,000
Mahomedans 70,000,000
Idolators 400,000,000
Of these, China alone, according to the most probable accounts, contains
300,000,000.
An elaborate, valuable, and now, I believe, a scarce work, entitled _The
Consumption of Public Wealth by the Clergy of every Christian Nation_,
&c. (published by Effingham Wilson in 1822), among details, founded on
authorities of repute, and which are named, gives for each nation,
"France," "Scotland" (its Kirk), "Spain," "Portuguese Church,"
"Hungarian Churches," "Clergy in Italy," "Clergy in Austria," "Clergy in
Prussia," "Clergy in Russia," "England and Wales," "Established Church
Property Ireland," &c. &c., the particulars required by Q. E. D. For
instance, under the heading "Hungarian Churches," we are preliminarily
told that--
"Hungary contains about 8,000,000 people of various religious
persuasions, who live happily together ever since the days of that
excellent Emperor Joseph II. He laboured resolutely and
successfully, in spite of the bigots of his own religion by whom
he was surrounded, to root out the evils of religious discord from
his dominions; and he left, as a glorious legacy to his people,
for which his memory will be ever dear, the blessings of concord
and harmony between his subjects of all denominations."
It is then narrated that there are (in Hungary):
"Catholics, Latin and Greek 4,750,000
Greek Church 1,150,000
Calvinists 1,050,000
Lutherans 650,000
Unitarian Christians 46,000
Various small Christian Sects, and
persons of the Jewish faith 200,000."
But this work contains no summary of the total amounts of its own
enumerations.