[94] See my Bohemia, an Historical Sketch, p. 299 et seq.
[96] See Chapter VI.
[97] See Chapter VI.
[98] Those who wish to study the life of Komenský in greater detail should read Mr. Keatinge's biographical and historical introduction to his recently published English version of the Didactica Magna. The biography of Komenský is founded on the best German and Latin authorities. It is only occasionally that mistakes occur, as when it is stated (on page [1] of the introduction) that the Unity "took a position midway between the Utraquists and the Roman Catholics." The Utraquists were, on the contrary, nearest to Rome, and some of them were indeed prepared to accept all its teaching if the right to receive communion sub utraque, in the two kinds, were granted them. The Brethren were of all Bohemian reformers most antagonistic to the Church of Rome, and refused to recognise all institutions which, according to their views, had not existed in the primitive Church.
[99] See Chapter VI.
[100] Komenský alludes to the confiscation of the estates of the nobles who belonged to the Unity. The peasants on their estates were generally of their faith, and were treated more mildly than on other estates. Komenský therefore uses the word "subject" (oddaný) instead of "serf."
[101] See my Bohemia, an Historical Sketch, pp. 397 and 398. Want of space prevents my repeating the short account of Kotter's "prophecies" given there.
[102] As late as in 1657 Komenský, in his Lux in Tenebris, republished the prophecies of Kotter, Ponatovská, and Drabik, The last-named disreputable prophet will be mentioned later.
[103] Mr. Keatinge: The Great Didactic. Mr. Keatinge's preface contains much interesting information concerning Hartlib and his friends.