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Peter Chelc̄icky̍'s   does not read as easily as the    by Erasmus of Rotterdam; it is the product of a man who did not have a formal education which the other absorbed in abundance. We often notice at the beginning of chapters that he meets difficulty in going into the ; he is redundant, at times cumbersone, but once he warms up to his subject, he can write passages of rare beauty and spiritual insignt. He is not afraid of using home spun turns of speech nor afraid of calling a spade a spade.

His life on the farm in Chelčice is reflected in many illustrations taken from the agricultural environment:

Chap.LX, p.205*.

Chap.LVIII, p.201*

Chap.XV, p.89*.