Getting It Straight

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“With the air of a Solomon, he gives instructions: ‘Keep the men well apart from each other for I want to question them.’ I suppose one could call this the birth of due process. The circumstances in which it is born remind one of a memorable remark Girard has made. We didn’t stop burning witches because we invented science, Girard insists; we invented science because we stopped burning witches” (Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled, p. 191).

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