Every generation has a different interest; to every era the ideals of that immediately preceding become stale and old-fashioned.

The writings of every age are a polemic against those of their fathers; every dogma has its day, and after every wave of enthusiam [Transcriber's note: enthusiasm ?] a reaction sets in.

Thus it was that the Reformation {231} missed, though it narrowly missed, the propitious moment for conquering France.

Enough had been said of it during the reign of Francis to make the people tired of it, but not enough to make them embrace it.

By the time that Calvin had become well known, the Catholics had awakened and had seized many of the weapons of their opponents, a fresh statement of belief, a new enthusiasm, a reformed ethical standard.