make us eternally
joyful hereafter; not doubting that God, who has enlightened and drawn
you, will also draw our dear neighbors, the other Confederates, in his
own good time, so that we in true friendship, to which right knowledge
is in no wise opposed, may become more harmonious than we ever were
before. May God, who has created and saves us all, bestow this upon
them and us!"

Whilst concord between Zurich and Bern appeared to be restored and
their union made stronger than ever, the news of the prevailing
alliance was received in Luzern with the liveliest indignation. At a
Diet held there, to which he had come on other business, a Bernese
ambassador, William von Diessbach, was called to account by the Five
Cantons. It is very probable he affirmed that his Lords had a right to
make the treaty.--Amid outbursts of displeasure, the session was
immediately raised, but after his departure it was again opened. "The
Devil take the old faith;" said the Bernese upon the street, "it is no
longer tenable." This saying, reported to the sergeants of the Council,
increased their wrath. The parties were separated. To organize and
strengthen themselves was a natural consequence.

FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER FIFTH:

Footnote 1: No one will think ill of a Protestant for believing that
the Catholic church could exist in greater spiritual unity, worth and
security under national bishops, primates and patriarchs, without a
Pope.

Footnote 2: For scientific readers: But how near an approach did not
the Greeks and Romans already make to it? The old proverb: _Mens sana
in corpore sano_, shows a recognition of the equal position of the
world of sense and the world of spirit, as well as their reciprocal
necessity. This saying is likewise the key to all philosophy; the clue
to reconciliation between spirit and matter, consciousness and guilt,
freedom and necessity, self-determination and determination from
without.

Footnote 3: The so-called "Scottish Cloisters," to which old St. Gall
especially belonged, were zealous in the culture of science. Benedict
himself held it in low esteem. The peculiar monasticism, which took its
rise from the fanatics of the Thebaid, was, moreover, only a reaction
against the preponderance of the sensuous element in Hellenism.

Footnote 4: From Pope Gregory VII., we may date especially the
unnatural schism between church and state, which are not two separate
elements, but spring from the same root and are filled