Excerpt from The History of Auricular Confession, Vol. 2 of 2: Religiously, Morally, and Politically Considered Among Ancient and Modern Nations It is easy for monks and depraved priests to seduce, by the means of confession, especially among the lower orders, females who live in the world: the things becomes still more so relatively to the nuns or pensionnaires confined in convents. Depravity introduced into those houses spreads like an epidemic, with symptoms and consequences more or less fatal, according to the nature and inclinations of individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.