From the golden dream of a new age wrought peaceably and purely by the slow progress of intelligence, the growth of letters, the developement of human virtue, the Reformer of Wittemberg turned away with horror.

He had little or no sympathy with the new culture.

He despised reason as heartily as any Papal dogmatist could despise it.

He hated the very thought of toleration or comprehension.

He had been driven by a moral and intellectual compulsion to declare the Roman system a false one, but it was only to replace it by another system of doctrine just as elaborate, and claiming precisely the same infallibility.