What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy Remember the index expurgatorius, the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter, and the guillotine.
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