Capitolo 20
example was lost soon, and you/he/she had succeeded from the most extreme degeneration
and discouragement. The following sovereigns started soon to live and to
you only reign for the gratification of their his/her own sensual inclinations and
passions. Sensuality sometimes starts with gentleness, but it always ends
in the most unwise and intolerable cruelty. The Ptolemies became, in
the end, the most abominable and terrible tyrants that the principle of
absolute and irresponsible power ever produced. There was a vice in
particular, a vice that they seems to have adopted from the Asian
nations of the Persian empire that have resulted in the most terrible
consequences. This vice was incest.
The law of God, proclaimed not only in the Sacred writings but in the native one
instincts of the human soul, prevent marriage among akin among those
connected by ties of closing of the consanguinity. The necessity for such law
you stay on considerations that are not able here fully explained. They is
however, considerations that rise from causes inherent in the very
man's nature as a to be social, and what I am of universal, perpetual,
and insurmountable strength. To protect his/her creatures against the deplorable one
consequences, physicist and ethic which resulted by the practice of
such marriages, the great Author of Nature has planted in every mind
an instinctive sense of their criminality, powerful enough to give
real warning of the danger, and so universal as to cause a separate
the sentence of them to be recorded in almost every code of law writing
that has ever been promulgated among humanity. The Persian sovereigns
it was above all however law and every kind of incestuous marriage,
it was practiced from them without the shame. The Ptolemies followed them
example.
One of the most impressive exposures of the nature of incestuous
national life that is allowed by the dark and whole panorama of pagan
vice and it incriminates, you/he/she is introduced in the history of his/her/their great-grandfather of