It was mind which he furnished with language.

These two powers were the mistresses of man, as they were hereafter of mankind.

The intellectual world was born of a material invention, and it had grown rapidly.

The reformed religion was one of its early offspring.
The empire of catholic Christianity had undergone extensive dismemberments.

Switzerland, a part of Germany, Holland, England, whole provinces of France, had been drawn away from the centre of religious authority, and passed over to the doctrine of free examination.