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Finally, on October 10th, comes his last appeal : " It is now three 

 weeks since I desired to have a hearing, but could not obtain it. 

 I beseech you, for the love of Jesus Christ, not to deny me what 

 you would not deny a Turk, when I beg you to do me justice. I 

 have several things to tell you that are very important and neces- 

 sary. As to what you may have ordered to be done for me in the 

 way of cleanliness, I have to inform you that nothing has been 

 done, and that I am in a more miserable condition than ever. In 

 addition to which, I suffer terribly from the cold and from colic, 

 and my rupture, which causes me miseries of other kinds that I 

 should feel shame in writing about more particularly. It is very 

 cruel that I am neither allowed to speak nor to have my pressing 

 wants supplied. For the love of God, my lords, either in pity or 

 in duty, give some orders in my behalf." 



During this time a letter was sent by the Council of Geneva to 

 the different Swiss churches, asking for an expression of opinion 

 on the case of Servetus. The answers came back in due course, 

 and the Spaniard was declared to be an intolerable monster of 

 impiety, and to have revived the wicked errors "with which 

 Satan did formerly disturb the Church." The Church of Zurich 

 was more vehement than the rest in exhorting the magistrates to 

 deal severely with him. 



On the morning of October 27th, Servetus was summoned " to 

 learn the pleasure of my lords the Councilors and Justices of 

 Geneva," and before the porch of the Hotel de Yille he heard his 

 condemnation : " To be burned alive, along with thy books, printed 

 as well as written with thy hand, until thy body be reduced to 

 ashes. So shall thy days end, and thou be made an example tc 

 others who would do as thou hast done." 



The sentence was immediately carried into execution. In a 

 few hours Calvin's most subtle disputant had forever ceased to 

 trouble him, and the world was the poorer by one loving, faithful 

 spirit. The Gentleinan's Magazine. 



The two main things required in anthropological study, said the Rev. Lorimer 

 Fison, sectional president in the Australasian Association, are a patient continu- 

 ance in collecting facts and the faculty of seeing in them what is seen by the 

 natives themselves. But the natural tendency to form a theory as soon as a fact 

 is seized, and looking at facts from the mental point of view of civilized man, may 

 lead investigators into fatal mistakes. The best way to gain information is to live 

 with the natives, learn their language, and get their confidence, or get information 

 from the men living among them. References to aborigines, their manners and 

 customs, in books might be collected and classified by many readers (as has been 

 done in Spencer's Descriptive Sociology), and thus facilitate investigation. The 

 speaker dwelt on the magnificent and all but untrodden field afforded by British 

 New Guinea and its outlying groups of islands. 



