Watson´s Magazine, 1916, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Watson´s Magazine, 1916, Vol. 24 Sir James Mackintosh says, in his "History of England:" "The Reformation was the first successful example of resistance to human authority. The reformers discovered the free use of reason. The principle came forth with the Lutheran revolution; but it was at first so confused and obscured by prejudice, by habit, by sophistry, by inhuman hatred, and by slavish prostration of mind... that its chiefs were long unconscious of the potent spirit which they had set free. Even now it is not wholly extricated from the impurities which followed it into the world. Every reformer has erected a little papacy. He therefore forbids all attempts to enlarge her stores, and draws a line beyond which human reason must no longer he allowed to cast a glance." (Italics mine.) The free use of reason, by those subject to authority, is, in the very nature of things, abhorrent to those clothed with authority, for the spirit of inquiry leads onward, in the hope of changes for the better, while the soul of authority craves iron-bound organization, implicit obedience, and unchangeable fixedness of creed and caste. Before Henry VIII. had quarrelled with the Pope, he had been a party to the most atrocious persecution of his subjects. He had sanctioned the torture and burning of Englishmen, whose only offense was their free use of reason, to the very limited extent of denying that God, the Almighty Creator, can be made at any time and place, where a priest talks a few words of Latin to a glass of wine and a wafer of bread. When Sir John Oldcastle - who, according to some, was caricatured by Shakespeare in Sir John Falstaffe - was on his trial for heresy, he told his judges that the Bible was his rule of faith; that every man had a right to the sacred guide; that the bread and wine were typical, but not actual, body and blood of Christ. "What!" cried one of the judges: "this is flat heresy." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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