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--The civil law does not generallypunish slander if the slanderer can prove that his statements are true,but this does not make veracious defamation morally lawful. ho mistake their fortuitous advantages, such as wealth orinfluence or birth, for character and ability. Reason, Age of, 433. But others, while granting that the guilty person is not obliged toaccuse himself, deny that the confidant is not obliged to

) for thepreceptive part. --Our Lord commanded His disciples to depend for theirmaintenance on those to whom they preached ( For the laborer is worthyof his meat, Matt. or liberty are in conflictand unequal, and he who prefers the former right does an injury to theinnocent person (see 288). defamers, and those who participate indefamation by directing the conversation to a certain subject or byjoining in the criticisms.