ical factions. Campanella thus would
make men great in science, having first made them slaves in
politics; a philosophical people were to be the subjects of
despots--not an impossible event!

His plan, remarkable enough, of _weakening the English_, I
give in his words:--"No better way can possibly be found than
by causing divisions and dissensions among them, and by
continually keeping up the same; which will furnish the
Spaniard and the French with advantageous opportunities. As
for their religion, which is a moderated Calvinism, that
cannot be so easily extinguished and rooted out there, unless
there were some schools set up in Flanders, where the English
have great commerce, by means of which there may be scattered
abroad the seeds of schism and division. These people being of
a nature which is still desirous of novelties and change, they
are easily wrought over to anything." These _schools_ were
tried at Douay in Flanders, and at Valladolid in Spain, and
other places. They became nests of rebellion for the English
Catholics; or for any one, who, being discontented with
government, was easily converted to any religion which aimed
to overturn the British Constitution. The _secret history_ of
the Roman Catholics in England remains yet to be told: they
indeed had their martyrs and their heroes; but the _public
effects_ appear in the frequent executions which occurred in
the reigns of Elizabeth and James.

Stubbe appears to have imagined that the ROYAL SOCIETY was
really formed on the principle of Campanella; to withdraw the
people from intermeddling with _politics_ and _religion_, by
engaging them merely in philosophical pursuits.--The reaction
of the public mind is an object not always sufficiently
indicated by historians. The vile hypocrisy and mutual
persecutions of the numerous fanatics occasioned very relaxed
and tolerant principles of religion at the Restoration; as,
the democratic fury having spent itself, too great an
indulgence was now allowed to monarchy. Stubbe was alarmed
that, should Popery be established, the crown of England would
become feudatory to foreign power, and embroil the nation in
the restitution of all