Switzerland the Pioneer of the Reformation, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Switzerland the Pioneer of the Reformation, Vol. 1: Or La Suisse AllemandeIt is in Switzerland that we must look for examples of the instinctive (as contrasted with the rational, ) love of liberty, so often sung by poets, and arrogated by almost all Protestant nations, as an exclusive property. There is a singular connection between liberty and great landmarks. The chief home of the grand scheme of mutually dependent religious and commercial Free dom is by the shores of the great Highway of nations. But from the snowy summits of the Alps was first sounded the Excelsior cry of civil liberty and absolute religious freedom. In all other countries, it was Protestantism in its confined clerical accepta tion that led to individual Freedom. In Switzerland the religious question had nothing to do with the movement of 1308, and, therefore, their rights once recognised, a few families soon usurped all the power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.