[194] Augustine, _De Ordine_, Bk. II, Ch. IV. [195] _De Regimine Principum_ (_Opuscula XX_), lib. iv, cap. XIV. I am indebted to the Rev. H. Northcote for the reference to the precise place where this statement occurs; it is usually quoted more vaguely. [196] Lea, _History of Auricular Confession_, vol. ii, p. 69. There was even, it seems, an eccentric decision of the Salamanca theologians that a nun might so receive money, "licite et valide." [197] Lea, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 263, 399. [198] Rabutaux, _De la Prostitution en Europe_, pp. 22 et seq. [199] Burton, _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Part III, Sect. III, Mem. IV, Subs. II. [200] B. Mandeville, _Remarks to Fable of the Bees_, 1714, pp. 93-9; cf. P. Sakmann, _Bernard de Mandeville_, pp. 101-4. [201] These conditions favor temporary free unions, but they also favor prostitution. The reason is, according to Adolf Gerson (_Sexual-Probleme_, September, 1908), that the woman of good class will not have free unions. Partly moved by moral traditions, and partly by the feeling that a man should be legally her property, she will not give herself out of love to a man; and he therefore turns to the lower-class woman who gives herself for money. [202] Many girls, said Ellice Hopkins, get into mischief merely because they have in them an element of the "black kitten," which must frolic and play, but has no desire to get into danger. "Do you not think it a little hard," she added, "that men should have dug by the side of her foolish dancing feet a bottomless pit, and that she cannot have her jump and fun in safety, and put on her fine feathers like the silly bird-witted thing she is, without a single false step dashing her over the brink, and leaving her with the very womanhood dashed out of her?" [203] A. Sherwell, _Life in West London_, 1897, Ch. V. [204] As quoted by Bloch, _Sexualleben Unserer Zeit_, p. 358. In Berlin during recent years the number of prostitutes has increased at nearly double the rate at which the general population has increased. It is no doubt probable that the supply tends to increase the demand. [205] Goncourt, _Journal_, vol. iii, p. 49. [206] Vanderkiste, _The Dens of London_, 1854, p. 242. [207] Bonger (_Criminalité et Conditions Economiques_, p. 406) refers to the prevalence of prostitution among dressmakers and milliners, as well as among servants, as showing the influence of contact with luxury, and adds that the rich women, who look down on prostitution, do not always realize that they are themselves an important factor of prostitution, both by their luxury and their idleness; while they do not seem to be aware that they would themselves act in the same way if placed under the same conditions.