with the same
living power. From this time forward, the Hohenstaufens were obliged to
fight against the church, and Adrian and Innocence made war upon the
state. Afterwards they strove with equal ill-success to reconcile the
parts, which stood over against each other in proud independence. But
is a healthy existence conceivable without religion, or an active
religion without life? The state would become a philosophical
abstraction; the church a deceptive mist-image. The universal church
(without form) stands _over_ the state; the established church (with
form) _in_ the state. The universal church is only visible in its
fruits; the established church in its external arrangement, which it
must receive from the state, or subject to its approval. The universal
church is unchangeable, eternal; the established church variable,
accidental.

Footnote 5: The seventh Sunday after the day of the Holy Three Kings,
in old almanacs, is styled, "Alleluia Niederlag" from an ordinance of
Alexander II., that on this day, neither the Hallelujah, nor any other
song of praise durst be sung.

Footnote 6: Concerning the relation of Zwingli to his age, the author
published an article in the Swiss Monthly Chronicle for the year 1819,
from which, as the periodical was confined to a narrow circle, he
ventures to insert here a short extract. "The great man goes in advance
of his age. His bold, firm step wins for him a host of trusting and
powerful adherents. Prudence hesitates; fear trembles; and the
evil-will refuses to follow him. Self-interest, justly in dread of
every blazing up of the truth, mingles in the drama with cunning art; a
separation ensues; and he who would bring peace to all the world, has
brought a sword; but still completes his work, if he suffer for it, or
is so happy as to fall. By the sacrifice of himself the hero becomes a
saint. Eyewitnesses of his labors, noble enough to admire him, able
enough to support him, but not strong enough to take his place, guard
with loving hearts his memory and his words; the solitary staff for a
race, which had the desire, but not the requisite maturity, to take
into itself the entire spirit of the illustrious dead. More and more
was the letter now anxiously guarded, and in it the living, creative
spirit was securely and faithfully handed down to a more enlightened
age. And this age was first able to understand the great man fully, to
prize his services and value his doctrine. It is surprisin