[Sidenote: March 1, 1546] In revenge for this a few fanatics murdered him.

[Sidenote: May 29] [Sidenote: John Knox] In the consummation of the religious revolution during the next quarter of a century, one factor was the personality of John Knox.

A born partisan, a man of one idea who could see no evil on his own side and no good on the other, as a good fighter and a good hater he has had few equals.

His supreme devotion to the cause he embraced made him credulous of evil in his foes, and capable of using deceit and of applauding political murder.

Of his first preaching against Romanism it was said, "Other have sned [snipped] the branches, but this man strikes at the root," and well nigh the latest judgment passed upon him, that of Lord Acton, is that he differed from all other Protestant founders in his desire that the Catholics should be exterminated, either by the state or by the self-help of all Christian men.