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On Love

Note 1 — Chapter L · LOVE IN THE UNITED STATES(41)

Cecil N. Sidney Woolf translation

See the manners of the Azores: there, love of God and the other sort of love occupy every moment. The Christian religion, as interpreted by the Jesuits, is much less of an enemy to man, in this sense, than English protestantism; it permits him at least to dance on Sunday; and one day of pleasure in the seven is a great thing for the agricultural labourer, who works hard for the other six.

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