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It was well known that in the Dutch Reformed Church the old leaven of Calvinistic doctrine was still working in the minds of a section of the people, especially in the villages and the farm-houses, and the watchword of the party of so—called enlightenment was to proceed cautiously and to preserve what they called a juste milieu. It was hoped that before very long, if they only took care not to go te 2267, the sword of ecclesiastical controversy would be returned for ever to its scabbard, and in Holland’s green and pleasant land, all would unite, in one Church, in working for the common weal.

“ Blind mortals that we are,” says Professor Oort, who retired not long ago from the Hebrew Chair at Leiden, looking back on the jubilant days of early Modernism—a move- ment that arose a generation later than the Period we are dealing with—and thinking on h?W times had changed and he had changed Wlth them. About the beginning of the second quarter of the century two movements took th'EIr rise in different parts of Holland, differing wlddy in character, but agreeing in this respect