{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is this which those canine or cynic<a id=\"FNanchor_111_111\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_111_111\">[111]</a> philosophers have\r\noverlooked, when they have, in violation of the modest instincts\r\nof men, boastfully proclaimed their unclean and shameless\r\nopinion, worthy indeed of dogs, viz., that as the matrimonial\r\nact is legitimate, no one should be ashamed to perform it\r\nopenly, in the street or in any public place. Instinctive\r\nshame has overborne this wild fancy. For though it is related<a id=\"FNanchor_112_112\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_112_112\">[112]</a>\r\nthat Diogenes once dared to put his opinion in practice, under\r\nthe impression that his sect would be all the more famous if\r\nhis egregious shamelessness were deeply graven in the memory\r\nof mankind, yet this example was not afterwards followed.\r\nShame had more influence with them, to make them blush\r\nbefore men, than error to make them affect a resemblance to\r\ndogs. And possibly, even in the case of Diogenes, and those\r\nwho did imitate him, there was but an appearance and pretence\r\nof copulation, and not the reality. Even at this day\r\nthere are still Cynic philosophers to be seen; for these are\r\nCynics who are not content with being clad in the <i>pallium</i>,\r\nbut also carry a club; yet no one of them dares to do this\r\nthat we speak of. If they did, they would be spat upon, not\r\nto say stoned, by the mob. Human nature, then, is without\r\ndoubt ashamed of this lust; and justly so, for the insubordination\r\nof these members, and their defiance of the will, are the\r\nclear testimony of the punishment of man's first sin. And it\r\nwas fitting that this should appear specially in those parts\r\nby which is generated that nature which has been altered for\r\nthe worse by that first and great sin,—that sin from whose evil\r\nconnection no one can escape, unless God's grace expiate in\r\nhim individually that which was perpetrated to the destruction\r\nof all in common, when all were in one man, and which\r\nwas avenged by God's justice.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-74"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0c5e4f68be2b7b54b25c2338fc475205d976c242bb006d91bcd5194b48cfb551","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_111_111","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_111_111","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_111_111\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_111_111\"><span class=\"label\">[111]</span></a> The one word being the Latin form, the other the Greek, of the same adjective.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_111_111","text_sha256":"ee95a5996641ce0e77c557e4742992e6e816753eee108fa9fb8d89cdb5ca90d2","verified":false,"work_id":null}