A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 50

separation from Rome. There was, indeed, a lot of tides in the brook,
some of them the cross-tides, some political, some religious but everybody
imperceptibly mixing with each other. The revolt of the nation
against a foreign authority the easily separate of these it is
tendencies;  another is the revolt of the laity against the cleric
expert. The church, must have remembered, you/he/she was concerned as often
not consisting any whole body of the believer, but simply of the
clergy that kept on asking a monopoly of his/her rights after them
you/he/she had stopped enjoying a monopoly of his/her intelligence and the virtue. The
Rebirth had been a new birth of the secular culture, not a revival of
cleric learning. Others besides the clergy you/they could now read and you/they could write
and it understands;  chronicles of city had the place of monastic chronicles,
secular poets of it foretells;  and a middle class that was growing in wealth
and intelligence also grew as impatient of cleric as you/he/she had done of
military experts. The essential characteristic of the reformed services
it was that they was compiled in the common language and not in the Latin
of ecclesiastical experts that a Book of Prayer of _Common_ has been used,
those psalm-singing congregational they replaced the solo of sacerdotal,
and a communion was replaced for a priestly miracle. Religious
service had to be anything made by the people themselves, and not
finished for their benefit from the priest.

Individual share and private judgment in religion were indeed
the essence of the Protestantism of which it was greatly the religious aspect
the individual's revolt against the collectivism of the Middle one
Age. The control practiced from the church, however the had been less
expression of the general wish that the authority discipline of
masses too much illiterate to think of them. Presence to public
necessarily adoration would be their only form of the devotion. But the
the general emancipation of servile and shed classes of the intelligence from
the Renaissance had conducted to an application for vernacular versions of the