Father SPEE, a most learned man, writing against the ceaseless persecutions of pretended witches, nevertheless declared, in 1631, in his renowned Cautio criminalis, by far the best work written on that side of the question, that "there are in the world some few wizards and enchanters, which could not be denied by any body without frivolity and great ignorance," and even Bayle, while condemning the cruelty of witches' trials, seriously proposes to punish witches for their "ill-will."
"Modern Magic"
Maximilian Schele de Vere
However, a few months later, the German squadron, in command of Admiral von SPEE, was met off the Falkland Islands by a second British squadron, and in the engagement four of the German vessels were sunk and a fifth damaged.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller
Admiral von SPEE, refusing to surrender, in spite of the odds against him, went down with his ship.
"America's War for Humanity"
Thomas Herbert Russell
