The countries which became corporately and democratically Protestant, Scotland, for instance, and Holland, followed Calvin and not Luther.

And Calvin was a Frenchman; an unpleasant Frenchman, it is true, but one full of that French capacity for creating official entities which can really act, and have a kind of impersonal personality, such as the French Monarchy or the Terror.
Luther was an anarchist, and therefore a dreamer.

He made that which is, perhaps, in the long run, the fullest and most shining manifestation of failure; he made a name.

Calvin made an active, governing, persecuting thing, called the Kirk.

There is something expressive of him in the fact that he called even his work of abstract theology "The Institutes." In England, however, there were elements of chaos more akin to Luther than to Calvin.