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19 that matter – sought the 'fulcrum of change' not in eternity but in time, endeavoring to bring it about by an infallible legislation, by a rationalistic immaculate perception, and by compulsion. If the Church is to live up to its pretensions, he taught, it must be in the hands of God, and not God in the hands of the Church. Yet precisely the latter was the official position of the Pope at Rome as well as of the Archbishop Primate of Prague and the Generalissimo of Ta̍bor. Chelčický would have been amply justified to inscribe his work, with apologies to Botticelli:

"This Net of Faith was written by me Peter amid the confusions of Bohemia and Europe, at the time prophesied in the Second Woe of the Apocalypse, when Satan, whose one horn is Protestant and the other Catholic, shall be loosed upon the earth."

vivebat 1446–1510.

George Bernard Shaw,, New York, Penguin books, 1946, p.l. (St.Joan of Arc lived from A.D. 1412 to 1431).

"Those ancient astronomers, the Chinese, said the fourteenth century had excessive sunspots." I am indebted for most of this barometric information to an excellent book in this field,  , by Roderick Peattie (New York: Stewart, 1940). At the same time I do not subscribe to the isobaric determinism of history which it often approaches rather dangerously.

See, Book ii, ch. iv.

Many famous people could be found there at one time or another; from Italy, for instance, Cola di Rienzi and Petrarch, arrived to 'pay their respects.'

Zdenēk Nejedly̍, ; see reference to this situation in the, Book II, ch.viii.

Seat of the Utraquist Church.

Seat of the Taborite faction.

Gerald Heard, New York: Harper, 1940, p. 164.