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Contents.
| CHAP. | PAGE |
| --- | --- |
| XVI. He blames the method in which the young are taught; and shows why the poets attribute vices to the gods | 16 |
| XVII. He continues the subject of the last chapter | 18 |
| XVIII. Men keep with care the rules of grammar; but neglect the eternal laws of lasting salvation | 18 |
| XIX. He proves that infants are not without faults; and details the guile and faults of boyhood | 20 |
| XX. He thanks God for benefits conferred on him in boyhood | 21 |
## Book 33.
He passes on to his youth; beginning from his sixteenth year; when having laid aside his studies he indulged his appetites, and with his companions committed theft.
I. He deplores the sins of his youth 22
II. In the deepest grief he recalls the sensual indulgence of his sixteenth year 22
III. Concerning his father, a freedman of Thagaste, the helper of his son’s studies; and his mother’s counsels to chastity 24
IV. He joins his companions in an act of theft; tempted not by want, but by a certain loathing of righteousness 26
V. That the motive to sin lies not in the mere love of evil, but in the desire to acquire something 27
VI. What it was that he loved in his theft; since all things that prompt to sin by an appearance of goodness can only be true and perfect in God alone 28
VII. He renders thanks to God for the forgiveness of his sins, and warns against pride any whom God has kept from such grave offences 30
VIII. That in the theft it was the companionship of his fellow sinners that he liked 31
IX. There is pleasure in laughter, and in the deceiving of others 31
X. With God is true rest, and life undisturbed 32
## Book 333.
Treats of his seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years spent at Carthage, where in addition to his studies he was taken in the snare of Lawless Love, and plunged into manichæan errors.
I. Captive to a lawless passion, a man base and dishonourable would fain be fine and courtly 32
II. He arouses empty feelings of pity in himself by stage plays 34
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