In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

corrupting the simplicity of ancient manners, and
impairing the rigor of ancient virtue.
When there was more piety at the hearth, there
was more valor in the field. On glancing abroad,
and pointing to the tyranny that flourished on the
south of the Alps, he would denounce in yet more
scathing tones that hypocritical ambition which, for
its own aggrandisement, was rending their country
in pieces, dragging away its sons to water foreign
lands with their blood, and digging a grave for its
morality and its independence. Their sires had
broken the yoke of Austria, it remained for them to
break the yet viler yoke of the Popes. Nor were
these appeals without effect. Zwingli's patriotism,
kindled at the altar, and burning with holy and
vehement flame, set on fire the souls of his
countrymen. The knitted brows and flashing eyes
of his audience showed that his words were telling,
and that he had awakened something of the heroic
spirit which the fathers of the men he was
addressing had displayed on the memorable fields
of Mortgarten and Sempach.
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