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THE DIGGER MOVEMENT


CHAPTER I

THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY

"Whatever the prejudices of some may suggest, it will be admitted
by all unbiassed judges, that the Protestant Reformation was
neither more nor less than an open rebellion. Indeed, the mere
mention of private judgment, on which it was avowedly based, is
enough to substantiate this fact. To establish the right of private
judgment, was to appeal from the Church to individuals; it was to
increase the play of each man's intellect; it was to test the
opinion of the priesthood by the opinions of laymen; it was, in
fact, a rising of the scholars against their teachers, of the ruled
against their rulers."--BUCKLE.


What is known in history as the Reformation is one of those monuments in
the history of the development of the human mind betokening its entry
into new territory. Fundamental conceptions and beliefs, cosmological,