{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Luxury has deranged all things; it has disgraced man. A luxurious\r\nniceness seeks everything, attempts everything, forces everything,\r\ncoerces nature. Men play the part of women, and women that of men,\r\ncontrary to nature; women are at once wives and husbands: no passage\r\nis closed against libidinousness; and their promiscuous lechery is a\r\npublic institution, and luxury is domesticated. O miserable spectacle!\r\nhorrible conduct! Such are the trophies of your social licentiousness\r\nwhich are exhibited: the evidence of these deeds are the prostitutes.\r\nAlas for such wickedness! Besides, the wretches know not how many\r\ntragedies the uncertainty of intercourse produces. For fathers,\r\nunmindful of children of theirs that have been exposed, often without\r\ntheir knowledge, have intercourse with a son that has debauched\r\nhimself, and daughters that are prostitutes; and licence in lust shows\r\nthem to be the men that have begotten them. These things your wise laws\r\nallow: people may sin legally; and the execrable indulgence in pleasure\r\nthey call a thing indifferent. They who commit adultery against nature\r\nthink themselves<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_289\">[289]</span> free from adultery. Avenging justice follows their\r\naudacious deeds, and, dragging on themselves inevitable calamity, they\r\npurchase death for a small sum of money. The miserable dealers in these\r\nwares sail, bringing a cargo of fornication, like wine or oil; and\r\nothers, far more wretched, traffic in pleasures as they do in bread and\r\nsauce, not heeding the words of Moses, “Do not prostitute thy daughter,\r\nto cause her to be a whore, lest the land fall to whoredom, and the\r\nland become full of wickedness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_651\" id=\"FNanchor_651\">[651]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER III. AGAINST MEN WHO EMBELLISH THEMSELVES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_651","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-514"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fb0c990743ed42d7157e96dc6690e6f2c0f4c25db238eab1c60b83ac97daf5e9","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LEV","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Lev. xix. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_651","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":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_651","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_651\" id=\"Footnote_651\">[651]</a> Lev. xix. 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_651","text_sha256":"e8bb49c2abf45a26fbdf1c1dc37bb7034954c9bbeb597ab8db6aed6919ca90fc","verified":false,"work_id":null}