But in proportion as it is indulgent to vice, it is severe in cases of scandal.

It only allows light conduct in women when they are sheltered by the protection of a husband.[12] It casts the cloak of Japhet over the vices of the Romans, in order that the pleasures of one nation may not be a scandal to others.

Rather than admit the existence of the evil, it refuses to place it under proper restraint: lay governments appear to sanction the social evil, when they place it under the control of the law.

The clerical police is perfectly aware that its noble and wilful blindness exposes the health of an entire people to certain danger.

But it rubs its hands at the reflection that the sinners are punished by the very sin itself.