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Si la morale n'est pas un vain mot, si elle est de quelque importance
pour le bonheur social , it est du devoir de 1'administration de la
respecter, de la protéger, et par consequent de ne rien faire qui puisse
lui porter atteinte ; elle lui doit sa protection plus encore qu'à la
santé publique.
PARENT-DUCHATELET,
de la prostitution dans la ville de Paris,
1857 II, p. 349.
REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION,
upon the administration and operation of the Contagious
Diseases Act. 1871 , vol. I p. 19.
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65. This Report has dealt , as from the nature of the questions
referred to us by Your Majesty it was necessary that it should, with
the effects of prostitution and the possibility of alleviating its evils,
both physically and morally ; but we cannot close it without inserting
a few words as to the causes of prostitution , and the question whether
any of them be capable of removal or mitigation..... It is needless to
add that in this case it is preeminently true , that prevention is better
than cure.
66. To sum up : We recommend —
1 . That the periodical examination of the public women be
discontinued.
The work, as a matter of justice, belongs to ourselves; to us, who
are men. It is the men who have wrought this evil. It is the men
who have done this wrong. It is the men who are responsible for
it—the women did not pass the law.
Mr. LLOYD GARRISON,
Conference at the Memorial Hall London, 29 June 1877.
(The Shield, 7 July.)
Ita fornicatur anima , cum avertitur abs Te , et quaerit extra Te
ea , quae pura et liquida non invenit , nisi cum redit ad Te.
AUGUSTINUS ,
Confessionum Lib. II, Cap. 6.