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the essence of it f And then call that beef eater a 

 double brute, etc., and thinking he, the Beefophagus 

 will go to hell for the crime of having eaten what you 

 had sucked^ and he who had absorbed the juice of that 

 beef will go to Heaven / Is not that a wonderfully 

 pious action ? One can go to heaven cheaply. Probably 

 there are some persons who would tell me that that was 

 only an isolated case, but unfortunately not, it is the 

 rule, not the exception. Long before that, I had seen 

 almost as bad in a different way. When, one, as /, 

 have seen such acts of fanaticism, in a city like 

 Paris ! when this very day the French nation hesi- 

 tates to have a separation of the State from that cleri- 

 cal breed / whose majority, to-day, would, if they had 

 the power, proclaim a new " Saint Bartholomew " of 

 all who would not believe, that confession is an igno- 

 minious aninfamous institution, to degrade human 

 species .... to corrupt young people, especially the 

 feminine sex. I wish that in this paper I am writing 

 on I could with decency unveil your turpitudes, but 

 we cannot dispose of a confessional as you do. We 

 have to observe decency .... It makes my blood "boil 

 when I think there are men that teach you you will 

 go to Hell in eating meat on certain days or in not 

 believing that they are the ministers of God ! O I 

 Impostors ! O ! French Philosophers ! 



