Original sentence: Calvin's acceptance of torture in particular is reprehensible to modern sensibilities, but in this view, he was in accord with the prevailing attitude of that age.He was a rabid enthusiast, and did everything he could in the way of insult and ribaldry to provoke the feeling of the Christian church.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, without attempting to exonerate the opinion of Calvin and the others in his time, said of the execution, "If ever a poor fanatic thrust himself into the fire, it was Michael Servetus
Edited sentence: Calvin's acceptance of torture is reprehensible, but in this view, he was in accord with the prevailing attitude of that age