It is said that even at the present day a Filipino father will not hesitate to chastise his son corporally, even after the latter has attained his majority. [186] This last phrase and the Latin quotation are lacking in M. Englished that quotation is, "The evil hate sin for fear of punishment." [187] This phrase is omitted in D. [188] In D. this is "even if it be a leaf." [189] Delgado says (p. 312): "But if his Paternity knows of this lack, how surprising that this and other things happen in regard to them, such as that all keep their faces turned toward him who confesses. If his Paternity would then preach them a sermon and correct them, I assure him that they would correct themselves, and these backward-looking dancers who are so immodest in the church, when they ought to be modestly thinking of their sins and repenting of them, would correct themselves, and would not cause wonder and laughter." [190] M. omits the remainder of this sentence. For "Januses," D. reads "worms." [191] Because some of the Indians are given to blasphemy, says Delgado (p. 313), it does not follow that all of them are blasphemous. [192] "I shall here attempt a delicate and interesting investigation, namely, the religiousness of the Filipinos. There are opposite opinions on this matter, and serious errors are liable to arise.... "The women always wear scapulars about the neck, and usually some sort of a small cross; and a reliquary, containing the bones of a saint and a bit of the wood of the cross. But this has become a part of the dress, like earrings or necklaces, and both the devout women and those who are not devout wear them. "The walls of the houses are often covered with the engravings of saints, and on the tables are many glass globes and urns containing saints, virgins, and little figures of the Divine Child, which generally have the face as well as the hands of ivory, and silver clothes richly embroidered. In well-to-do houses there are so many that they resemble a storehouse of saints rather than a habitation. In many houses this is a matter of vanity and ostentation; and they regard valuable saints as they do bureaus and mirrors elsewhere.