Excerpt from The Significance of the Protestant Reformation: A Series of Lectures Delivered in Connection With the Observance of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Posting of the Theses by Luther

Things always begin before they start. This paradox must constantly be kept in mind in the study and the interpretation of historical movements. The fact before the fact must be sought out and brought into the clear light of knowledge.

If the sixteenth century did not come trailing clouds of glory, it did come trailing clouds, and all these clinging remains of an older life must be in the thought of the man who would understand this age of the world's spiritual rebirth.

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