"A monk said to me that if a nun's veil were placed on one pole, and a monk's cowl on another, so great is the sympathy between the veil and the cowl they would come together, _and unite_." ("Unite" is the modest word: "copulate," is _meant_.) "I say," continues the Sister, "I say, and repeat it, that whatever the Superiors know, they do not know _the least portion_ of the great evils that pass between the monks and the nuns." The foregoing is a mere trifle compared to the whole amount of the undisputed testimony taken by Duke Leopold of Tuscany in 1775. Have men and women changed? Is human nature the same? It was for all people and all ages that the inspired writer wrote-- "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let _every man_ have his own wife; and let _every woman_ have her own husband." (I. Cor. 7:12.) The most powerful argument and authority against the Roman papacy on this question _is that of Jesus Christ_. Virtually, he said that _a man must make himself a eunuch_--if not born so--_before he could live like a eunuch_! If the word of Christ is not conclusive and binding, where shall we seek the truth? The trouble with papists is, they are educated outside of the Bible and common sense; and they seldom free their minds from the priestly domination established in childhood. (THE END.) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vices of Convents and Monasteries, Priests and Nuns, by Thos. E. Watson