Whether this harsh remedy is sufficient for extirpation?

...devour: they lay waste to their own lands more than any war, and they do not profit a bit: the matter is one to be wept over even with blood. There are, therefore, those who suggest milder means, among whom the distinguished theologian of the Society of Jesus The Jesuits, Tanner Adam Tanner (1572–1632), a Jesuit professor whose work Theologia Scholastica cautiously criticized the procedural abuses in witch trials, has always seemed to me to excel in discretion and prudence in volume 3 of his Theology, disputation 4, On Justice, question 5, doubt 5, number 123 and following; if the Princes were willing to listen to the means he prescribes, there is no doubt that the Commonwealth original: Resp. (Respublica) would experience the benefit.

As for me, to speak candidly, I have turned many things over in my mind regarding this matter and have tried to devise a solution; I know also of many groans and prayers poured out to God by many others, asking if He might send down some ray of His light and teach by what best method such great darkness might be clearly dispelled. But I see that the condition of the times is such that even if I had happened to find something of the sort, the Magistrates of Germany would not seem likely to give it any consideration; for which reason I cannot yet bring myself to the point of wishing to publish it, as I do not know with what calm or kindness it would be received by readers.

But if indeed there is someone among the highest Magistrates of such a mind and curiosity that he dares and desires to know, and to be the first to attempt an experiment experimentum: here meaning a practical trial or test of a new administrative or judicial method of a certain new industry, by which within a single year his entire province...