Oh, I'm going to I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekinanas show Aaron's back and we're going to talk about torture and stuff like that.

How you doing Aaron? I am rock hard right now. You ready for it? Oh yeah. You want to just

jump in? Let me get the screen up so we can look at this.

Yeah, yeah. I'll stop you if I have any valuable insights or just insights.

Awesome. All right.

There's five letters in this and I don't know that we're going to do every letter, but I looked at the second letter and just the way it started out was, you know, like, amazing.

But it's also shorter than the first letter. And this gets into some things the second, the first letter didn't. So if I see any overlap in other letters, I'm going to skip over them. all right so de maestro talking to a

anonymous Russian noble nobleman.

After the supposition at the Inquisition is a purely ecclesiastical tribunal and that priests can condemn men to death, after this, they're needed but one other supposition to complete the absurd phantom of malevolent

ignorance. Namely, that the Inquisition condemned men for their simple opinions and that a Jew, for example, was burnt for no other offense than being purely and simply a Jew.

This indeed is an exertion which has been so often repeated that multitudes

actually believe the preposterous tale. Among the least excusable excuse among the least excusable,

among the least excusable,

columniators of the insulted institution,

I regret and am surprised to find so distinguished a character as Montesquieu.

But so it is. We unfortunately see this great writer with the boldest intrepidity, oaring out the most virulent language

against it on the occasion of a pretended remonstrance of a pretended Jewess.

He even makes this the subject of a chapter in his Espary de Lou.

Come, Montescue.

Now the fact is that the very idea of burning a young innocent girl and this too in one of the great

grand capitals of Europe for no other offense than that of

believing in her own religion there is in this something too horrible to be

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