John, Pilgrim,

I have thought that John verbatim quoted something from the two articles .... hence the confusion.

You well may be right but I am still not sure whether one can ascribe the current state of the Netherlands just to this one factor, ie. neo-Calvinism. Surely not all Dutch were reformed at that time, even though the Kuyper party may have been the strongest. There were RC's and simply non-believers. Society is such a complex thing that sometimes it is difficult to make a one-to-one correlation between historical situations.

Well, I'm not a social scientist so I may be wrong.

Johan