| ### BOOK II |

| ### Index |

| #### CONSPECTUS #### CHAPTER I. HE DEPLORES THE WICKEDNESS OF HIS YOUTH. #### CHAPTER II. STRICKEN WITH EXCEEDING GRIEF, HE REMEMBERS THE DISSOLUTE PASSIONS IN WHICH, IN HIS SIXTEENTH YEAR, HE USED TO INDULGE. #### CHAPTER III. CONCERNING HIS FATHER, A FREEMAN OF THAGASTE, THE ASSISTER OF HIS SON'S STUDIES, AND ON THE ADMONITIONS OF HIS MOTHER ON THE PRESERVATION OF CHASTITY. #### CHAPTER IV. HE COMMITS THEFT WITH HIS COMPANIONS, NOT URGED ON BY POVERTY, BUT FROM A CERTAIN DISTASTE OF WELL-DOING. #### CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE MOTIVES TO SIN, WHICH ARE NOT IN THE LOVE OF EVIL, BUT IN THE DESIRE OF OBTAINING THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS. #### CHAPTER VI. WHY HE DELIGHTED IN THAT THEFT, WHEN ALL THINGS WHICH UNDER THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD INVITE TO VICE ARE TRUE AND PERFECT IN GOD ALONE. #### CHAPTER VII. HE GIVES THANKS TO GOD FOR THE REMISSION OF HIS SINS, AND REMINDS EVERY ONE THAT THE SUPREME GOD MAY HAVE PRESERVED us FROM GREATER SINS. #### CHAPTER VIII. IN HIS THEFT HE LOVED THE COMPANY OF HIS FELLOW-SINNERS. #### CHAPTER IX. IT WAS A PLEASURE TO HIM ALSO TO LAUGH WHEN SERIOUSLY DECEIVING OTHERS. #### CHAPTER X. WITH GOD THERE IS TRUE REST AND LIFE UNCHANGING. |