thou hast made thy deformity apparent to all the world; thou hast multiplied thy fornications in Italy, in France, in Spain, in every country.

"The Navajo women are very loose, and do not look upon fornication as a crime.

But this is something,and it is well for the critic and opponent of the Augustinian theology to bear this in mind,that Augustine was an earnest seeker after truth, even when enslaved by the fornications of Carthage; and his own free-will in persistently seeking truth, through all the mazes of Manichean and Grecian speculation, is as manifest as the divine grace which came to his assistance.

He accounts not all sins mortal, for fornication with him is a venial sin, and to take bribes a matter of charity; he is collector for burnings and losses at sea, and in casting account readily subtracts the lesser from the greater sum.

" Brough Smyth (II., 92) refers to the fact that secret violations of the rule against fornication within the forbidden classes were not punished.

[Footnote 16: The Romans practised fornication at pleasure, and held it ridiculous to blame them.

It implies, that men will lay voluntary restraints upon themselves, in proportion as they are indulged by their governours; and that all prohibitory laws tend to the promotion of the practices which they condemn; it implies, that a stop can only be put to fornication by increasing the number of prostitutes, and that theft is only to be restrained by leaving your doors open.