Chapter II: The Brethren of the Common Life

What is said on pp. 31-34 about the Brethren, must partly be corrected. Recent investigations have proved that they were not, as Raumer had represented them, an order of teachers like the Jesuits. They taught, indeed, in a few schools, as in that of Liège; but in most schools with which they were connected, they received boarders and looked chiefly after their moral and religious training, while the secular instruction was in the hands of other teachers, who, however, were mostly imbued with the spirit of the Brethren. See Paulsen, _Geschichte des g. U._, 2nd ed., vol. I, pp. 158-160, where this author modifies, in the same way, the statements expressed in the first edition of his work. Further see the recent valuable work on _Jakob Wimpfeling_, by Dr. Knepper (Herder, 1902), page 7.

CHAPTERS V AND VII.

Jesuit Scholars.