163-180), is an article with which the present biographer can agree.

Several passages from Knox's works are cited, and the reader is expected to be "shocked at their principles." They are certainly shocking, but they are not, as a rule, set before the public by biographers of the Reformer.
Mr.Carlyle introduced a style of thinking about Knox which may be called platonically Puritan.

Sweet enthusiasts glide swiftly over all in the Reformer that is specially distasteful to us.

I find myself more in harmony with the outspoken Hallam, Dr.Joseph Robertson, David Hume, and the Edinburgh reviewer of 1816, than with several more recent students of Knox.
"The Reformer's violent counsels and intemperate speech were remarkable," writes Dr.Robertson, "even in his own ruthless age," and he gives fourteen examples.

{0a} "Lord Hailes has shown," he adds, "how little Knox's statements" (in his "History") "are to be relied on even in matters which were within the Reformer's own knowledge." In Scotland there has always been the party of Cavalier and White Rose sentimentalism.