In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

magistrates prepared to put into the form of law
what was already the judgment and wish of the
community; and thus the law, never outrunning
public opinion would be willingly obeyed. In this
way Zwingli had already accomplished a host of
reforms. He had opened the door of the convents;
he had suppressed the monastic orders; he had
restored hundreds of idle men to useful industry; he
had set free thousands of pounds for the erection of
hospitals and the education of youth; and he had
closed a fountain of pollution, only the more
defiling because it issued from the sanctuary, and
restored purity to the altar, in the repeal of the law
of clerical celibacy. But the Reformation did not
stop here. More arduous achievement awaited it.
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