from the mediaeval council of Europe.

It is easy to exaggerate the part played in the matter by that great and human, though very pagan person, Martin Luther.
Henry VIII.

was sincere in his hatred for the heresies of the German monk, for in speculative opinions Henry was wholly Catholic; and the two wrote against each other innumerable pages, largely consisting of terms of abuse, which were pretty well deserved on both sides.

But Luther was not a Lutheran.

He was a sign of the break-up of Catholicism; but he was not a builder of Protestantism.