[Footnote 36: I am more deeply scandalized at the single
execution of Servetus, than at the hecatombs which have
blazed in the Auto de Fes of Spain and Portugal. 1. The
zeal of Calvin seems to have been envenomed by personal
malice, and perhaps envy. He accused his adversary before
their common enemies, the judges of Vienna, and betrayed,
for his destruction, the sacred trust of a private
correspondence. 2. The deed of cruelty was not varnished by
the pretence of danger to the church or state. In his
passage through Geneva, Servetus was a harmless stranger,
who neither preached, nor printed, nor made proselytes. 3.
A Catholic inquisition yields the same obedience which he
requires, but Calvin violated the golden rule of doing as he
would be done by; a rule which I read in a moral treatise of
Isocrates (in Nicocle, tom. i. p. 93, edit. Battie) four
hundred years before the publication of the Gospel.]