[123] Janssen, ib., p. 43. Schiele, ib., p. 593.
[124] Schiele, ib., p. 390.
[125] He even says: “Academiæ nunc quidem Dei beneficio omni genere doctrinarum florent.” “Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 1068. Bishop Julius Pflug informed Pope Paul III, in a letter in which he gives him a vivid picture of the needs of the country in order to determine him to active assistance: “Scholæ Lutheranorum cum privatæ tum publicæ florent, nostræ frigent plane ac iacent.” “Epistolæ Mosellani,” etc., p. 150 sq. Kawerau, “Reformation und Gegenreformation”³, (Möller, “Lehrb. der KG.,” 3, p. 437.)
[126] G. Steinhausen, “Gesch. der deutschen Kultur,” Leipzig and Vienna, 1904, p. 515. There we read (p. 514) in the description of the education given by the Protestant Universities that it was “rendered sterile” by the new theology. “The intellectual leaders of the time became more and more Court theologians. It is noteworthy that many of the edicts and regulations begin with an improving theological preface.… What had become of the intellectual revival of the first decades of the 16th century?” Eobanus Hessus had prophesied in 1523 that the new theology would bring in its train a worse barbarism than that which had been overthrown, and already in 1524 he had been obliged to speak of the “New Obscurantists.”
[127] Döllinger, “Die Ref.,” 1², p. 509.
[128] M. Ritter, “Matthiä Flacii Illyrici Leben”², 1725, p. 105 Janssen, ib., p. 265.
[129] For proofs see Janssen, ib., p. 286 ff.
[130] Ib., p. 295.
[131] On the contrast between mediæval and Lutheran charity, see above, vol. iv., p. 477 ff., and Janssen, “Hist. of the German People” (Engl. Trans.), vol. xv., pp. 425-526.
[132] Adolf Bruder, art. “Armenpflege,” “Staatslexikon der Görresgesellschaft.”