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marriage," says a modern penologist, "is the 

 cardinal crime from which, directly or indirectly, 

 most other crimes spring." 27 There is an inti- 

 mate connection between lust and cruelty, espe- 

 cially rape and murder. 28 



"It is vanity to follow the lusts of the flesh and 

 to desire that for which thou must afterwards 

 be grievously punished. . . . For they who fol- 

 low sensuality, defile their conscience and lose 

 the grace of God," says Thomas a Kempis. 29 



IV. Envy. — Envy (invidia) is denned as sad- 

 ness on account of another's good (tristitia de 

 alienis bonis). To be sad because an unworthy 

 man has obtained a post of honor or wealth, of 

 which he is sure to make wrong use, or to which 

 we ourselves have a better claim, or which will be 

 employed to our disadvantage, is not envy. Such 

 sadness generally results from shortsightedness 

 or a mistaken idea of Providence; but it does 

 not exclude charity; in fact there is a species 



18) : "Sicut nulla affectio est vehe- "Nam fuit ante Helenam cunnus de- 



mentior qitam luxuriosa libido, sic terrima belli causa. . . ." 



ad errandum falsumque docendum 28 Cfr. Ez. XVI, 49 ; Am. II, 7. — 



nulla perniciosior." Jos. Miiller, Die Keuschheitsideen 



27 Beneke, Gefdngnisstudien, p. in Hirer geschichtlichen Entwicklung 



54. — Horace says (Carm., Ill, 6, 17 und praktischen Bedeutung, May- 



sqq.): ence 1897, pp. 152 sqq. 



.,_ , , t , ... 29 Thomas a Kempis, De Imit. 



Fecunda culpae saecula nupttas _, . .. T , rT . T. . 



_ . . . Christi, I, 1 : Vanttas est carnis 



Prxmum xnqumavere et genus et 



desideria sequi: et illud desiderare 

 unde postmodum graviter oportet 

 puniri. . . . Nam sequentes suam 

 sensualitatem maculant conscientiam : 



Cfr. the same writer's Satyrae, et perdunt Dei gratiam." (Ed. 



Book III, 3, 107 sq.: Pohl, Vol. II, p. 659.) 



domos: 

 Hoc fonte derivata clades 



In patriam populumque fluxitj 



