BOOK THIRD

OF THE SEVENTEENTH, EIGHTEENTH, AND NINETEENTH YEARS OF HIS AGE, PASSED AT CARTHAGE, WHEN, HAVING COMPLETED HIS COURSE OF STUDIES, HE IS CAUGHT IN THE SNARES OF A LICENTIOUS PASSION, AND FALLS INTO THE SNARES OF THE MANICHÆANS.

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Chapter I.—Deluded by an insane love, he, though foul and dishonorable, desires to be thought elegant and urbane, . . . .	35
Chapter II.—In public spectacles he is moved by an empty compassion. He is attacked by a troublesome spiritual disease, . . . .	36
Chapter III.—Not even when at church does he suppress his desires. In the School of Rhetoric he abhors the acts of subverters, . . . .	38
Chapter IV.—In the nineteenth year of his age (his father having died two years before) he is led by the Hortensius of Cicero to philosophy, to God, and a better mode of thinking, . . . .	39
Chapter V.—He rejects the Sacred Scriptures as too simple, and as not to be compared with the dignity of Tully original: "Tullius" (Marcus Tullius Cicero), . . . .	40
Chapter VI.—Deceived by his own fault, he falls into the errors of the Manichæans A religious sect known for dualistic cosmology, who gloried in the true knowledge of God, and in a thorough examination of things, . . . .	40
Chapter VII.—He attacks the doctrine of the Manichæans concerning evil, God, and the righteousness of the patriarchs, . . . .	43
Chapter VIII.—He argues against the same as to the reason of offenses, .	45
Chapter IX.—That the judgment of God and men, as to human acts of violence, is different, . . . . . . . . .	47
Chapter X.—He reproves the triflings of the Manichæans as to the fruits of the earth, . . . . . . . . .	48
Chapter XI.—He refers to the tears, and the memorable dream concerning her son, granted by God to his mother, . . . .	48
Chapter XII.—The excellent answer of the bishop when referred to by his mother as to the conversion of her son, . . . .	50

BOOK FOURTH

THEN FOLLOWS A PERIOD OF NINE YEARS FROM THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, DURING WHICH, HAVING LOST A FRIEND, HE FOLLOWED THE MANICHÆANS—AND WROTE BOOKS ON THE FAIR AND FIT, AND PUBLISHED A WORK ON THE LIBERAL ARTS, AND THE CATEGORIES OF ARISTOTLE.