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Quotes from Superstition and Force — Henry Charles Lea

1825–1909 United States

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The whole process [the Inquisition] was apparently based upon the conviction that it was better that a hundred innocent persons should suffer than that one culprit should escape, and it would not be easy to devise a course of procedure better fitted to render the use of torture universal.

Superstition and Force (1866)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Charles Lea (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.