After the revolution had destroyed these rich and numerous places of refuge, the Consulate re-established the house of St. Michael; the City of Paris and the Ministry for charitable institutions also founded that of the Bon Pasteur in 1821; but the inadequacy of the sums placed at their disposal did not admit of these institutions fulfilling their original purpose. There was the same poverty of resources in all France. This state of things seemed deplorable, whether it be regarded in reference to the wealth of the spoliated refuges, or be compared with the stability and the opulence of those other social institutions that are called toleration-houses, and to the sums absorbed in the interest of profligacy upon the pretext of public health and security. An effect of our moral impoverishment, and of certain economical doctrines which have gone to the extent of making the refuges guilty of the progress of prostitution, may be seen in that. Without doubt, there is immorality in the efforts made to _take away from vice the consequences which nature has attached to it_; but this consideration can only be applied to individuals who choose it voluntarily. In going back to the causes of the downfall of the greater number of women, we can but bless the hand which tries to raise them up, though tardily. Every measure which relates to them is, however, but a powerless palliative of an evil which must be attacked in its causes, by putting down the profligacy of the man. III.—LAWS FOR REPRESSION. “He was convinced that good could only flow, in a State, through the channel of the laws; that the way to make a benefit lasting was by practising the virtue of following them; that the way to make an evil lasting was by practising the vice of hindering their effect; that the duties of princes did not less consist in defending the laws against the passions of others than against their own personal ones.”—_Montesquieu, Arsace et Isménie._ “The liberty which shows favour to the passions and licentiousness is a fatal license, a fresh yoke, a shameful slavery; and the rule of good morals is the leading principle of the happiness of empires.”—_Massillon._ If woman too frequently acquiesces in depravity, man makes choice of it; it is against this active agent of corruption, therefore, that societies for the maintenance of the integrity of their original laws should fortify themselves beforehand; we moreover see ancient and purer civilisations ward off decay by prosecuting those who pay for prostitution, and by involving the accomplices of a common sin in a common punishment.