Most high, all-powerful, good Lord, thine are praises, glory, honour and all benediction. To Thee alone, Most high, they are due, and no man is worthy to name Thee. Have praise, Lord, with all Thy creatures, especially Brother my Lord the Sun. He gives the day, and by him Thou showest light, and he is beautiful and radiant, with great splendour. Of Thee, Most High, he is the symbol. Have praise, Lord, for Sister Moon and for the Stars; in the sky Thou hast formed them, bright, precious and beautiful. Have praise, Lord, for Brother Wind, and for the Air and the Clouds, and for the clear sky, and for every kind of weather, by which Thou givest sustenance to all Thy creatures. Have praise, Lord, for Sister Water who is so serviceable and humble and precious and chaste. Have praise, Lord, for Brother Fire, by whom Thou dost illuminate the night. He is handsome and gay, bold and strong. Have praise, Lord, for Sister our Mother, the Earth, who nourishes and takes care of us, and brings forth divers fruits with coloured flowers, and the grass. Praise ye and bless the Lord and render thanks to Him, and serve Him with great humility! APPENDIX E ISABELLA AND CLAUDIO The ethics of sex-relations has always formed a crucial question in ethical systems. Let me recall a remarkable debate upon it which took place recently between a champion of the Spencerian system, Dr. Saleeby, and Mr. W. S. Lilly, who represented, of course, the view of Catholic orthodoxy. Mr. Lilly, in an article on Shakespere’s Religion contributed to the _Fortnightly Review_ for June, 1904, was led to dwell on “the strikingly Catholic ethos of the play Measure for Measure, informed as it is by the idea, quite alien from the Protestant mind, of the surpassing excellence and sacrosanct character of virginal chastity.” Hazlitt, whom Mr. Lilly takes to represent the typical Protestant view, had declared himself “not greatly enamoured” of Isabella’s inflexible purity, and had expressed his want of “confidence in the virtue that is sublimely good at another’s expense.” Mr. Lilly added that Spencer’s teaching would have countenanced Hazlitt’s judgment and enjoined upon Isabella compliance with Angelo’s desire. Dr. Saleeby having denounced this as an “outrageous” perversion of Spencer’s meaning, Mr. Lilly vindicates himself in a letter to the _Fortnightly_ as follows:—