"It is nothing of the sort. If my arms worked, I’d read you some of those letters," said de Ath, turning his head a fraction of a degree towards some scrawled pages on the end of this table, weighed down by a Bible. "They are from brothers of mine in Europe. They tell a story—albeit in a fragmentary and patchwork way—of a sea-change that is spreading across Christendom, in large part because of men like Leibniz, Newton, and Descartes. It is a change in the way men think, and it is the doom of the Inquisition."