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When the Inquisition held full sway over Spain, its agents found (and painstakingly listed) 27 different ways in which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes...
Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...committee was headed by New York Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, who helped draft the unification plan, and included, among consultants, Admirals Nimitz and King and Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz...
...partial answer could be given. Quebec law forbids the licensing of doctors convicted of a felony, and Montel was convicted of treason, in absentia, by French courts. But he was recommended for a license by Msgr. Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval University, where he teaches surgery. And it was Msgr. Vandry who recommended him to the nuns who operate Sorel's Hôtel-Dieu...
What Is Psychiatry? What exactly, is this science that all the fuss is about? In one of his three books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take...