here. "Every
body fell upon the idols. We tore them from the altar, the walls and
the pillars. The altars were beaten down, the idols split to pieces
with axes, or smashed by hammers. You would have thought it a field of
battle. What a noise! what a breaking! what an echoing in the lofty
ceiling!" _Kessler_.

Footnote 12: _For scientific readers_: Neither mysticism and pietism,
nor dogmatism alone are able to sustain the Protestant churches.
Mysticism and pietism yield to more consistent Catholicism; dogmatism,
without symbolical books, which lose their authority where the press is
free, succumbs to philosophy. The simple _eternal_ dogma of Christ
stands: _By its fruit shall ye know the tree._ The time will yet come,
when all who practically reverence this dogma, will form the one,
universal church, and all others, be they marked with the cross or
protests against it, the no-church. For this no revolution is needed,
not even much change in forms. _It will come from within._

Footnote 13: Why? will be seen hereafter.

Footnote 14: In the "Advice concerning Images and the Mass."

Footnote 15: The contradictions in the character and behavior of this
man, who was rather eccentric than morally corrupt, are well depicted
in _Kirchofer's_ Continuation of _Wirz's_ Church History, Part II. p.
222.

Footnote 16: It was publicly read.

Footnote 17: She was the widow of Hans Meier of Knonau, who died in
1520, and had a son by him, named Gerold, whom Zwingli loved like a
father and to whom he dedicated a work on the education of youth.
Little is known of her during her marriage with Zwingli. But a single
short letter is extant, written by her husband from Bern, in which he
asks her to send a cap-pattern to one of her relations there. Solomon
Hess in his Biography thinks that Zwingli read his writings aloud to
her. The author begs leave to doubt this, indeed rather to believe,
that he would have heartily laughed, if the learned stuff was tedious
to her. Mind and heart she certainly had, and he talked with her not
merely about kitchen and cellar; but she probably studied him more in
his actions, than in his works.

CHAPTER FOURTH.

DANGERS OF THE REFORMATION AND ZWINGLI'S BATTLE AGAINST THEM.

In our times we hear such frequent use of the word _radicalism_. What
is its true meaning, according to its derivation? Action, that
penetrates to the roots. We can imagine a _good_ radicalis