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...livre." Having discovered that all worldly activity could be dismissed as a diversion designed to evade the actual emptiness of life, he concluded that there was no real reason ever to leave one's room. Whatever there was to know could be read. Just as Calvin and Sebastian Castellio of Basen disputed the nature of redemption, just as Bruno and the Hermeticists quarreled over Phyrronism, so the theologians, the rude heretics during an earlier time conducted their speculations in sombre monasteries, in libraries where each volume had been copied out in a laborious script...
With the country still buzzing over Germany's unsympathetic reply to the "antepenultimatum," the Monthly launches a little manifesto, "On the Guilt of Error," by A. K. McComb. The pacifists of today, we learn, are the successors of the opponents of religious persecution in the sixteenth century. These "rationalists," "Castellio, Montaigne, Socinus, believers in the power of human reason, proclaimed that the truth might only be discovered by the free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many...
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