Procedure--Tenderness for Delinquents 119 Two Denunciations required 123 Registers kept of Soliciting Confessors 125 Moderation of Penalties 126 Self-Denunciation--It finally secures immunity 130 Statistics of Cases--Predominance of the Regular Orders 134 CHAPTER VII--PROPOSITIONS Growth of Jurisdiction over Utterances, public and private 138 Influence of habitual Delation 138 Danger incurred by trivial Remarks 140 Severity of Penalties--Question of Belief and Intention 142 Special Propositions--Marriage better than Celibacy 144 Fornication between the Unmarried no Sin 145 Theological Propositions--Case of Fray Luis de Leon 148 Scholastic Disputation, its Dangers 150 Fray Luis accused of Disrespect for the Vulgate 151 Arrested and imprisoned March 27, 1572 153 Endless Debates over multiplying Articles of Accusation 154 Vote _in discordia_, September 18, 1576 156 Acquitted by the Suprema, December 7, 1576 157 Second trial in 1582 for Utterances in Debate--Acquittal 159 Francisco Sánchez, his Contempt for Theology 162 He is summoned and reprimanded, September 24, 1584 164 Again summoned and imprisoned, September 25, 1600--his Death 166 Fray Joseph de Sigüenza--Plot against him in his Order 168 Prefers Trial by the Inquisition--is acquitted 170 Case of Padre Alonso Romero, S. J. 171 Prosecutions of incautious Preachers 172 Increasing Proportion of Cases of Propositions, continuing to the last 176 CHAPTER VIII--SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS. Accumulation of Superstitious Beliefs in Spain 179 Toleration in the early Middle Ages 180 John XXII orders Persecution of Sorcery 181 Persistent Toleration in Spain 182 The Inquisition obtains Jurisdiction 183 Question as to Heresy--Pact with the Demon 184 The Demon omnipresent in Superstitious Practices--Hermaphrodites 186 Belief thus strengthened in Divination and Magic 189 The Inquisition thus obtains exclusive Jurisdiction 190 Astrology--Its Teaching suppressed in the University of Salamanca 192 Procedure--Directed to prove Pact with the Demon 195