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Two Lectures On The Inquisition by Joseph G. Wilson. This mid-19th-century critique presents a pair of lectures delivered in Milwaukee in March 1853 that scrutinize the Inquisition as a coercive instrument of ecclesiastical power. Wilson traces the emergence and operation of inquisitorial systems in medieval and early modern Europe, examining papal and secular collaboration, the use of torture, imprisonment, and forced conformity. He argues that freedom of conscience is an inalienable right rooted in natural law and divine sovereignty, and that neither church nor state may compel belief or practice. Drawing on episodes involving Innocent III, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, Galileo, and the Spanish Inquisition, he contends that persecution corrupts religion, subverts justice, and undermines civil liberty. The lectures advocate religious toleration, the separation of church and state, and the primacy of conscience over coercive dogma. They offer a historically grounded, polemical defense of secular liberty and a warning against the dangers of authoritative coercion in matters of faith.
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