“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will find that it is not undeserved.”
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Lea, Henry Charles. [History of the Inquisition of Spain.] 4v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
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v. 3. The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon “‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’ ‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
v. 4. The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
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Reviewed by George L. Burr.