{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20992c96997ad3c1346774c7f8193759b8111e758ae17dd2b36fba3a3923e2f2","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-72","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":[],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>For the sanctity of the body does not consist in the integrity\r\nof its members, nor in their exemption from all touch;\r\nfor they are exposed to various accidents which do violence to\r\nand wound them, and the surgeons who administer relief often\r\nperform operations that sicken the spectator. A midwife,\r\nsuppose, has (whether maliciously or accidentally, or through\r\nunskilfulness) destroyed the virginity of some girl, while\r\nendeavouring to ascertain it: I suppose no one is so foolish\r\nas to believe that, by this destruction of the integrity of one\r\norgan, the virgin has lost anything even of her bodily sanctity.\r\nAnd thus, so long as the soul keeps this firmness of purpose\r\nwhich sanctifies even the body, the violence done by another's\r\nlust makes no impression on this bodily sanctity, which is\r\npreserved intact by one's own persistent continence. Suppose\r\na virgin violates the oath she has sworn to God, and goes to\r\nmeet her seducer with the intention of yielding to him, shall\r\nwe say that as she goes she is possessed even of bodily\r\nsanctity, when already she has lost and destroyed that sanctity\r\nof soul which sanctifies the body? Far be it from us to so\r\nmisapply words. Let us rather draw this conclusion, that while\r\nthe sanctity of the soul remains even when the body is\r\nviolated, the sanctity of the body is not lost; and that, in like\r\nmanner, the sanctity of the body is lost when the sanctity of\r\nthe soul is violated, though the body itself remain intact.\r\nAnd therefore a woman who has been violated by the sin of\r\nanother, and without any consent of her own, has no cause to\r\nput herself to death; much less has she cause to commit\r\nsuicide in order to avoid such violation, for in that case she\r\ncommits certain homicide to prevent a crime which is uncertain\r\nas yet, and not her own.</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"71730d1cc5d47173a64ed9ab952f765b8d43a1ac6ab36cce217ba7e1a208d550","verified":false,"work_id":null}