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into Spain. Thereby that country was
saved from the bloody brood ct sectaries
then -fleanIafinr ,the restl OF Europe. when

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saved. from the bloody brood at sectaries
then desolatfng the rest OF Europe. when
| every sect had it's own Inquisfti0n. In
the same land within 20 years rulers
as Ca1vanists prosecuted Lutherans, and
afterwards as Lutherans oppressed Cal
vinists, with penalties equalling any in
ffcted by the Inquisition. II ever Spain
| is tempted to miss the introduction OF
the Protestant gospel she can comfort
herself with the.thought that she missed
also the Thirty Years War, which says
Villers left Germany In stupor, In
barbarism almost total, Of which Schle-
gel says that " never was there relig-
ious war SO extended, so protracted, and
entailng misery on so many aIrSra-
| tons; she missed the bloody ravages
Of the ;Huguenots In France, and Of Or
ange in Holland; 1.-The ecclesiastico-p oliti-
cal anarchy in, England Scotland and
Germany; the devastation done In Ire
land where Elizabeth found she was
LETT but ashes and carcasses to reign
over" ;;she missed the excuses of the An
abaptists, the 'sanggutnary debaucheries
Of John Of Leyden,, and the slaughter OF
the 150, 900 Suabian peasants. by order OF
Martin Luther for following his own doc
trines. g.
Philip IL had himself seen in Eng
F,,1 ~ hn
nation in nation once happily united
in. religion. '"The immediate effect Of
the introduction of Professionalism into
spain," says the philosophic spaniard
Ba1mez, would have been as in other
countries, civil war; and this war would
have been more fatal to us than to other
people, because the circumstances were
much more critical for u.s. The unity OF
the Spanish monarchy could not have
resisted the shocks of intestine dissen-
sion; the different parts were so heter-
ogeneous among themselves, and so
slightly united, that the least blow would
have parted them. The Moors were still
in sight of Our coasts; the Jews had not
had time to forget Spain; certainly both
would have avaiIed themselves OF the
conjuncture to raise themselves by
means of -discords." And the famous
Chancellor de lHospital at the CQlloquy
Of Passy, when it was debated whether
to have an Inquisitien in France, avow-
al hot ho
evil of religious dissension already taken
SO deep root in his country, and we're
it likely that France would secure that
benefit the unity of faith which Philip
had secured for Spain at the cost (dur-
ing his reign) Of As capital executions"
It is curious that the Spaniard Serve
tns should have escaped punishment by
the ;Inquisition, only to be burnt at &C.
neva by Calvin, Bucen, Beza and Me-
lancthon highly approving: Beza wrote
book to prove that ,heretics should be
be punished by the civil power; and CAL
vim treatise to teach how they should
be repressed by the sword But this is
announcer story, and pretty long one:
AS the danger; from Professionalism
ceased the Inq,1isition had little left to
do and came to take cognizance of only
rare and specially odious crimes, such as
bigamy and sorcery::> It's last infection of
capital punishment was in 1881, just one
year before a witch was burnt in the
Protestant canton of Glearus.
without doubt, says Voltaire, this
Justly detested tribunal has been charged
with horrible excuses that it did not al
ways commit: it Is foolish to clamor
against the Inquisition because of doubt
full facts, and still more foolish to search
for lies with which to render it hateful"