Thus political slavery has assisted moral depravation: the writer who is the advocate of despotism, may be dull and licentious by privilege, and is alone exempt from the laws of Parnassus and of decency.

The original principles of the revolution, of themselves, naturally tended to produce such a depravation; but the suspension of religious worship, the conduct of the Deputies on mission, and the universal immorality of the existing government, must have considerably hastened it.

Several historians attest the depravation of morals which existed both among the crusaders, and in the states formed out of their conquests.

For the extension of the ways of thinking which are proper in politics, to other than political matter, means at the same time the depravation of the political sense itself.