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François Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (París,
november 21 1694 – ibídem, may 30 1778) |
In the middle of the institutional crisis of the catholic church, Voltaire offers us an intresting perspective of the catholic extremism.
CHAPTER VI:
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After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-fourths of the city of Lisbon, the sages of that
country could think of no means more effectual to preserve the kingdom from utter ruin than to entertain the people with an auto-da-fé12, it having been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible preventive of earthquakes.
