17/22 Here freedom of investigation, yonder with Hoogstraten and Tungern, fettering of the mind. Among us, the ardent yearning to hold aloft the new light which the revival of learning is kindling, yonder superior force is struggling to extinguish it. Here the rule of the thinking mind, in whose scales reason and counter-argument decide the matter; among the Cologne people it is the Grand Inquisitor's jailers, chains, dungeons, and the stake." "They will not go so far," replied the abbot soothingly. "True, both the front and the back stairs are open to the Dominicans in Rome." "Yet where should humanism find more zealous friends than in that very place, among the heads of the Church ?" asked Dr.Peutinger. "From the Tiber, I hope----" Here he paused, for the new guest who had just entered the room attracted his attention also. |