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"With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." 6 9 12 15 Martyrs inevitable History is full of records of suffering. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." Mortals try in vain to slay Truth with the steel or the stake, but error falls only before the sword of Spirit. Martyrs are the human links which connect one stage with another in the history of religion. They are earth's luminaries, which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of material sense

which helped to establish the habit of critical thinking among a wide public. Voltaire sends Candide into the real world to test the validity of the optimistic thesis that ‘tout est bien’, just as Diderot put the problem of determinism in his reader’s lap by requiring him to ‘judge consistently’ the adventures of Jacques le Fataliste. Literature was the essential arm of the philosophic Enlightenment. Literature Neo-classicism The seventeenth century cast a long shadow. The precepts of Boileau continued