to all corners, and said, 'Let the people be taught:' this is but
one, and, and indeed, an inevitable and comparatively
inconsiderable item in his great message to men. This message, in
its true compass, was, 'Let men know that they are men created by
God, responsible to God who work in any meanest moment of time
what will last through eternity...' This great message Knox did
deliver, with a man's voice and strength; and found a people to
believe him. Of such an achievement, were it to be made once
only, the results are immense. Thought, in such a country, may
change its form, but cannot go out; the country has attained
MAJORITY thought, and a certain manhood, ready for all work that
man can do, endures there.... The Scotch national character
originated in many circumstances: first of all, in the Saxon stuff
there was to work on; but next, and beyond all else except that,
is the Presbyterian Gospel of John Knox."--(Carlyle' s
MISCELLANIES, iv. 118.

(19) Moore's 'Life of Byron,' 8vo. ed. p.484.--Dante was a
religious as well as a political reformer. He was a reformer
three hundred years before the Reformation, advocating the
separation of the spiritual from the civil power, and declaring
the temporal government of the Pope to be a usurpation. The
following memorable words were written over five hundred and sixty
years ago, while Dante was still a member of the Roman Catholic
Church:- "Every Divine law is found in one or other of the two
Testaments; but in neither can I find that the care of temporal
matters was given to the priesthood. On the contrary, I find that
the first priests were removed from them by law, and the later
priests, by command of Christ, to His disciples."--DE MONARCHIA,
lib. iii. cap. xi.