Francisco Moyen Or the Inquisition As It Was in South America
Francisco Moyen Or the Inquisition As It Was in South America
Benjamn Vicua Mackenna
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The feet were placed naked in the stocks, and the soles were rubbed with lard, and then a brazier full of burning coals was placed close to them. This was considered the most cruel of all. The Senor Saavedra, however, has made this recapitulation to con- trast it favourably with the more severe tortures made use of by Pro- J : > 1- FRANCISCO MO YEN. inquisitor, gave proofs of a compassionato disposition; for which reason very likely it was that he was recalled to Spain. He died in Carthagena of... the Indies, but whether from the fever or from grief we do not know. * testants ; and they might have been, for aught we know, as brutal, as savage, and as infernal as those made use of by tho Inquisition. F But if so, both the one and the other were the fruit of tho same barbarous and atrocious religious intolerance, and which is now represented to be of such a sublime nature by its partizans. Nevertheless we must in our conscience confess, that for us this system of comparisons, and applying them for the purpose of palliating and excusing the lesser of two crimes by the enormity or magnitude of the greater, is not worthy of an argument, and we consider those by whom it is so applied to be wanting in common sense.
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