109, etc.)] [Footnote 37: See on this, Lange, ii.

308.] [Footnote 38: _De la Suffisance de la Religion Naturelle_, Sec.

5.] [Footnote 39: It is well to remember that torture was not abolished in France until the Revolution.

A Catholic writer makes the following judicious remark: "We cannot study the eighteenth century without being struck by the immoral consequences that inevitably followed for the population of Paris from the frequency and the hideous details of criminal executions.

In reading the journals of the time, we are amazed at the place taken in popular life by the scenes of the Greve.