CHAPTER XXXV.

OF THE RIGHT OF COERCION IN GENERAL.

Intolerance is a general fact in history--Dialogues with the partisans of universal tolerance--Does there exist a right of punishing doctrines?--Researches into the origin of that right--Disastrous influence of Protestantism and infidelity in this matter--Of the importance which Catholicity attaches to the sin of heresy--Inconsistency of certain timid Voltairians--Another reflection on the right of punishing doctrines--Résumé, 196