all advancement is cut off; to whom, as being “a fellow that has stolen,” the proverb is applied: “He who steals once is a thief all his life.”

These, then, are the guards that watch over correct behaviour between man and man, and he who has lived, and kept his eyes open, will admit that the vast majority of honourable actions in human intercourse must be attributed to them; nay, he will go further, and say that there are not wanting people who hope to elude even their vigilance, and who regard justice and honesty merely as an external badge, as a flag, under the protection of which they can carry out their own freebooting propensities with better success.

We need not therefore break out into holy wrath, and buckle on our armour, if a moralist is found to suggest