(1860-64.)
The Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers--Veneration for the
Ancient--Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages--Penalty for Reading
the Scripture in the Mother Tongue--Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws--The
Reformers too were Persecutors--Bigotry of Luther and Knox--Persecution
of Castalio--Montaigne against Torture in France--"Witchcraft" (chapter
on)--Confessed Wizards--A Case before Sir Matthew Hale--Belief
in Lycanthropy--Animals Tried and Executed--Animals received
as Witnesses--The Corsned or Morsel of Execution--Kepler an
Astrologer--Luther's Encounter with the Devil--Mathematician
Stoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood--Histories Filled with
Falsehood--Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and
giving the Country her name--A Story about Mohammed--A History of the
Britains written by Archdeacons--Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius--Progress
in the Mechanic Arts--England at the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century--Barbarous Punishments--Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning
Clergymen and Servant Girls--Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and
Others--Solomon's Deprivations--Language (chapter on)--Belief that the
Hebrew was< the original Tongue--Speculations about the Language
of Paradise--Geography (chapter on)--The Works of Cosmas--Printing
Invented--Church's Opposition to Books--The Inquisition--The
Reformation--"Slavery" (chapter on)--Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as
a Contract--White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and
France--Free minds make Free Bodies--Causes of the Abolition of White
Slavery in Europe--The French Revolution--The African Slave Trade,
its Beginning and End--Liberty Triumphed (chapter head)--Abolition of
Chattel Slavery--Conclusion.