Little journeys to the homes of great teachers : Hypatia . a pulp, dismembered,and then to hide all traces of the crime and distribute theguilt, so no one person could be blamed, the funeral pyre lOI H Y P A T I A quickly consumed the remains of what but an hour beforehad been a human being. Daylight pame, and the sunsrays could not locate the guilty ones. Orestes made a report of the affair, resigned his office,asked the Government at Rome to investigate, and fledfrom the city. Had Orestes endeavordd to use his soldieryagainst the Bishop, the men in the ranks would haverevolted. The investiga
Little journeys to the homes of great teachers : Hypatia . a pulp, dismembered,and then to hide all traces of the crime and distribute theguilt, so no one person could be blamed, the funeral pyre lOI H Y P A T I A quickly consumed the remains of what but an hour beforehad been a human being. Daylight pame, and the sunsrays could not locate the guilty ones. Orestes made a report of the affair, resigned his office,asked the Government at Rome to investigate, and fledfrom the city. Had Orestes endeavordd to use his soldieryagainst the Bishop, the men in the ranks would haverevolted. The investigation was postponed from time totime for lack of witnesses, and finally it was given outby the Bishop that Hypatia had gone to Athens, and therehad been no mob and no tragedy. The Bishop nominated a successor to Orestes, and the newofficial was as a police system was continued until the time of Dante, or the Italian Renais-sance j» The reign of Religious Doginatism was supremefor a thousand years—we call it the Dark 102
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