Servants are instructed to report about their employers, wives about their husbands, children about their parents, and girls about their lovers.

Every act of your life is thus known to, and interfered with, by the priests.

I might quote a hundred instances of petty interference: let me quote the first few that come to my memory.

No bookseller can have a sale of books without submitting each volume to clerical supervision.

An Italian gentleman, resident here, had to my own knowledge to obtain a special permission in order to retain a copy of Rousseau's works in his private library.