Remarkable Biography Or the Peculiarities And Eccentricities of the Human Char
Remarkable Biography Or the Peculiarities And Eccentricities of the Human Char
Paul Pindar
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It is not, how- ever, our intention to detail the events of the life of a man, whose death alone was perhaps the most re- markable circumstance to which minute attention can be directed. A more foul murder was never com- mitted in the sacred name of justice, than that on the unhappy Cai^as. Voltaire displayed his humanity and his eloquence by his unceasing efforts to rescue the memory of Galas from the foul name that had been cast upon it, and to obtain justice for Iiis much injured family: and... from that celebrated writer's Essay on Toleration, the following account is abridged. The tale is in itself so horrible, that it would be lOi JOHN CALAS. tlilTicult to believe that such an outrage could have been committed, and yet it is strictly true. The murder of Galas, committed at Toulouse, by the hand of justice, on the 9th of March, 1762, is one of the most singular events which can be offered to the attention of the present age, or of posterity. The questions were, whether a father and mother had strangled their own son to obtain the favour of God ?
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