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Says a contemporary writer,[8] an eye-witness of what went on at Worms during the sitting of th

The episcopal town of Muenster, in Westphalia, like other places in the third decade of the sixteenth century, became strongly affected by the Reformation. Again in 1514, when the evil had become still more crying, we find the estates of Wuertemberg petitioning Duke Ulrich that the Supreme Court "shall be composed of honourable, worthy, and understanding men of the nobles and of the towns, who shall not be doctors, to the intent that the ancient usages and customs should abide, and that it should be judged according to them in such wise that the poor man might no longer be brought to confusion. The movement was, however, betrayed and mercilessly crushed by the neighbouring knighthood. Nothing more charming than the variety and contrast of colours after the rusty-brown raiment which Southern Europe dons in mid-December. As honoured guests were to be found attending on him humanists

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Normally speaking, the greater a man is, the less likely he is to make the very greatest claim

Some such tantalising blank or break in memory is at the back of all pagan sentiment. But the question here is a certain tone to be appreciated by merely reading a certain text; and we might give any number of instances of it. All that world was a tissue of interwoven tales and cults, and there ran in and out of it, as we have already seen, that black thread among its more blameless colours; the darker paganism that was really diabolism. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings. But the despotism in certain dingy and decayed tribes in the twentieth century does not prove that the first men were ruled despotically. Here again we must keep the enormous proportions of a normal thing clear of various modifications and degrees and doubts more or less reasonable, like clouds clinging about a