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“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]”

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Book:How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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