The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11
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| Inquisition of the Middle Ages" by Henry
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| by the ambition fanaticism of the Roman
| Catholic Church, but rather natural and al
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| In the thirteenth century. He therefore finds it
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| carefully consider the factors controlling the
| minds and souls of men during that period. and
| to pass in review nearly all the spiritual and in
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| the moral influences which gave rise to the In
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