Hence the exactness of the remarks of Oliveira Martins in his magnificent History of Iberian Civilization, in which he says (book iv., chap, iii.) that "Catholicism produced heroes and Protestantism produced societies that are sensible, happy, wealthy, free, as far as their outer institutions go, but incapable of any great action, because their religion has begun by destroying in the heart of man all that made him capable of daring and noble self-sacrifice."
Eta, horregatik, oso zehatza da Oliveira Martins-ek bere Historia da civiliçâo iberica bikainean zioena (IV. lib., III. kap.); eta, izan ere, "katolikotasunak heroiak eman zituen, eta protestantismoak gizarte zentzudunak, zoriontsuak, aberatsak eta askeak, erakundeei eta kanpo-ekonomiari dagokienean, baina bat ere egintza handiosorik egiteko gai ez zirenak, erlijioa gizonaren bihotzean, ausartak izan eta sakrifizio nobleak egiteko kuraia ematen diona zatikatzen hasia zelako".