In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

eat him with his own weapons." As one who quits
a smiling and fertile field, and crosses the boundary
of a gloomy wilderness, where nothing grows that
is good for food or pleasant to the eye, so did
Zwingli feel when he entered this domain. The
scholastic philosophy had received the reverence of
ages; the great intellects of the preceding centuries
had extolled it as the sum of all wisdom. Zwingli
found in it only barrenness and confusion; the
further he penetrated into it the more waste it
became. He turned away, and came back with a
keener relish to the study of the classics. There he
breathed a freer air, and there he found a wider
horizon around him.
Between the years 1512 and 1516 there
chanced to settle in Switzerland a number of men
of great and varied gifts, all of whom became
afterwards distinguished in the great movement of
Reform.
Let us rapidly recount their names. It was not
of chance surely that so many lights shone out all
at once in the sky of the Swiss. Leo Juda comes
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