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AN INQUIRY INTOTHE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCESOFTHE REFORMATION,BEING A PRELIMINARY ATTEMPT AT AN ANSWER TOTHE QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE FRENCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE.WRITTEN" IN THE YEAH 1802.TO THE EEADEE.THE following treatise was written in answer to a questionproposed by the National Institute of France, as the subjectof a prize essay for July, 1803, viz. "What has been theinfluence of the Reformation on the political position of thedifferent states of Europe, and upon the diffusion of knowledge? 1This question, in itself so interesting, attracted myattention the more because the whole course of my studieshave been directed towards it. I resolved therefore to attemptan answer to it ;but when I had nearly finished the firstpart, which regards the political consequences of the Reformation, I learned from mylate friend Von Villers that Ishould have him for a competitor. Uponthis I withdrewmyself, and his essay, which proved the successful one, andof which several editions have been published, is universallyknown. In the mean time I committed my work to thepress, even before the day appointed for sending in theessays, but confined it to the political part of the question.The sheets were forwarded as soon as printed to my friend,and he has himself remarked in his preface, that he madeuse of them in working out this portion of his subject. Any1Qnelle a t Finflnence de la Reformation" snr situation la^ politiqiiedeedijSTerens Etats de FEurope, et snr le progres des lumi&res PR 2