Excerpt from Scotland's Debt to Protestantism The day is not distant and it may be very near, remarked Sir Robert Peel on one occa sion, when we shall have to fight the battle of the Reformation over again. Since these words were uttered events have gone far to confirm the fears of the great statesman. In the natural course of things, as Shakespeare has it, when the brains are out, the man should die. The Papacy defied the natural course of things. At the Reformation, thanks to the heroic labours Of Luther, Calvin, and Knox, the Papacy was completely worsted. Luther roused the national conscience against2 Scotland's Debt to Protestantism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.