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Penguin Island

BOOK IV
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MODERN TIMES: TRINCO.
I.MOTHER ROUQUIN Aegidius Aucupis, the Erasmus of the Penguins, was not mistaken; his age was an age of free inquiry.

But that great man mistook the elegances of the humanists for softness of manners, and he did not foresee the effects that the awaking of intelligence would have amongst the Penguins.

It brought about the religious Reformation; Catholics massacred Protestants and Protestants massacred Catholics.

Such were the first results of liberty of thought.


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