Recognize that Servetius whom you condemned to die by the most cruel of methods because he had disputed with you the manner in which three persons could share a single substance. At this, the judges ordained that the Cardinal of Lorraine be thrown into the abyss, but that Calvin be punished yet more severely. The Jesuit LeTellier appeared proudly, the bull Unigenitus in his hand. But at his side there arose of a sudden a heap of lettres de cachet . I saw streaming in from right and left troups of fakirs, of talapoins, of bonzes, of monks in white, in black, in gray, who had all imagined that, to pay court to the Supreme Being, it was necessary to chant, to flog oneself, to walk around in full nude.
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