CHAPTER XV.

THE INQUISITION 171-188

Jewish and Moorish Intellectual Advance followed by Physical Decline.--This Decline the Cause of Their Downfall.--The Spaniard Again Ruler Over Spain.--The Inquisition Established.--To Escape it, Jews Become "New Christians".--Christianity no Help to the Jews.--Thomas de Torquemada.--The Tortures of the Inquisition.--A Public Burning.