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The Roots of Evil, by John Kekes; Cornell University Press, 2005, US$19.95.

PART I of The Roots of Evil describes and explains six real-life examples of wicked behaviour. "The Sleep of Reason" (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters) discusses the crusade launched in 1209 against a heretical sect known variously as Albigensians after the town of Albi in the South of France and--to themselves--as Cathari (the pure). The crusading soldiers came from all over Europe. They killed men and women and children and inflicted tortures on their victims of a kind too ...

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