Original sentence: After seventeen months, he returned to Calvinism, fleeing to Geneva in order to  avoid persecution.In Geneva, he became acquainted with the teachings of René Descartes.In his articles on the founder of Islam "Mahomet" and the Italian reforming monk Savonarola, to take but two examples, Bayle displays his penchant for judicious assessment of highly controversial figures and philosophies, while eschewing partisan interpretations.While this striving for objectivity is a standard criterion of scholarship in the modern world, in Bayle's time he was among the first to implement it in a sustained intellectual endeavor like his "Dictionary," amidst a sea of contentious ideologies and their zealous proponents
Edited sentence: After seventeen months, he returned to Calvinism and fled to Geneva.In his articles e.There he became acquainted with the teachings of René Descartes.on the "Mahomet" and "Savonarola", Bayle displays his penchant for judicious assessment of highly controversial figures and philosophies, while eschewing partisan interpretations