Puritans.--Results of Asceticism.--Excesses of the Restoration.--General Licentiousness.--Art.--Literature.--The Stage.--Nell Gwynne.--Nationality in Vice.--Sabbath at Court.--James II.--Literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries.--Lord Chesterfield.--House of Hanover.--Royal Princes.--George III.--George IV.--Influence of French Literature.--Marriage Laws.--Increase of Population. 298 CHAPTER XXV. GREAT BRITAIN.--PROSTITUTION AT THE PRESENT TIME. Influence of the Wealthy Classes.--Devices of Procuresses.-- Scene at a Railway Station.--Organization for entrapping Women.--Seduction of Children.--Continental Traffic.-- Brothel-keepers.--"Fancy Men" and "Spooneys."--Number of Brothels in London.--Causes of Prostitution.--Sexual Desire.--Seduction.--Over-crowded Dwellings.--Parental Example.--Poverty and Destitution.--Public Amusements.-- Ill-assorted Marriages.--Love of Dress.--Juvenile Prostitution.--Factories.--Obscene Publications.--Census of 1851.--Education and Crime.--Number of Prostitutes.--Female Population of London.--Working Classes.--Domestic Servants.--Needlewomen.--Ages of Prostitutes.--Average Life.--Condition of Women in London.--Charitable Institutions.--Mrs. Fry's benevolent Labors. 312 CHAPTER XXVI. GREAT BRITAIN.--SYPHILITIC DISEASES. First Recognition in England.--Regulations of Henry VI.-- Lazar Houses.--John of Gaddesden.--Queen Elizabeth's Surgeon.--Popular Opinions.--Proclamation of James IV. of Scotland.--Middlesex and London Hospitals.--Army.--Navy.-- Merchant Service.--St. Bartholomew's Hospital.--Estimated Extent of Syphilis. 354 CHAPTER XXVII. MEXICO. Spanish Conquest.--Treatment of Female Prisoners.--Mexican Manners in 1677.--Priesthood.--Modern Society.--Fashionable Life.--Indifference of Husbands to their Wives.--General Immorality.--Offenses.--Charitable Institutions.--The Cuna, or Foundling Hospital. 359 CHAPTER XXVIII. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. Low moral Condition.--San Salvador.--Guatemala.--Yucatan.-- Costa Rica.--Honduras.--The Caribs.--Depravity in Peru and Chili.--"Children of the House."--Intrigue in Lima.-- Infanticide.--Laxity of Morals in Brazil and Paraguay.-- Foundling Hospital at Rio Janeiro. 364 CHAPTER XXIX. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Decrease of the Indian Race.--Treatment of Females.-- Courtship.--Stealing Wives.--Domestic Life among the Crow Indians.--"Pine Leaf."--Female Prisoners.--Marriage.-- Conjugal Relations.--Infidelity.--Polygamy.--Divorce.-- Female Morality.--Intrigue and Revenge.--Decency of Outward Life.--Effects of Contact with White Men.--Traders. 372