Note 18 — Chapter X · THE SAVONAROLA FALLACY
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in the rural districts of France the passage of the ravagers was traced by blackened ruins, by desecrated churches, by devastated fields, by the mutilated bodies of women and children.... Strange forms of disease which the chroniclers of those times sum up in the names of “black death,” or plague, were born of hunger and overleapt the highest barriers ... and ran riot within the overcrowded cities.18