She has never subjected any one to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas.

She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes.

But in the Vatican--we have only to recall the Inquisition--the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned.
They have been steeped in blood! There are two modes of historical composition, the artistic and the scientific.

The former implies that men give origin to events; it therefore selects some prominent individual, pictures him under a fanciful form, and makes him the hero of a romance.

The latter, insisting that human affairs present an unbroken chain, in which each fact is the offspring of some preceding fact, and the parent of some subsequent fact, declares that men do not control events, but that events control men.