led by the University dons; they were political rather than
religious in their aims; they regarded Hus as a patriot; and, on the
whole, they did not care much for moral and spiritual reforms.

Next came the Taborites, the red-hot Radicals, with Socialist ideas
of property and loose ideals of morals. They built themselves a
fort on Mount Tabor, and held great open-air meetings. They
rejected purgatory, masses and the worship of saints. They
condemned incense, images, bells, relics and fasting. They declared
that priests were an unnecessary nuisance. They celebrated the Holy
Communion in barns, and baptized their babies in ponds and brooks.
They held that every man had the right to his own interpretation of
the Bible; they despised learning and art; and they revelled in
pulling churches down and burning monks to death.

Next came the Chiliasts, who fondly believed that the end of all
things was at hand, that the millennial reign of Christ would soon
begin, and that all the righteous--that is, they themselves--would
have to hold the world at bay in Five Cities of Refuge. For some
years these mad fanatics regarded themselves as the chosen
instruments of the Divine displeasure, and only awaited a signal
from heaven to commence a general massacre of their fellow men. As
that signal never came, however, they were grievously disappointed.

Next in folly came the Adamites, so called because, in shameless
wise, they dressed like Adam and Eve before the fall. They made
their head-quarters on an island on the River Nesarka, and survived
even after Ziska had destroyed their camp.

But of all the heretical bodies in Bohemia the most influential were