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I sat by it yesterday, and read Erasmus's Militis Christiani Enchiridion. Piozzi Letters, ii. 3. See post, April 9 and 30, 1778. At the following Easter he recorded: 'My memory is less faithful in retaining names, and, I am afraid, in retaining occurrences. Pr. and Med. p. 170. I am told that Horace, Earl of Orford, has a collection of Bon-Mots by persons who never said but one.
Ach Gott, I was even, once for all, a Son of Time." From which is it not clear that the internal Satanic School was still active enough? He says elsewhere: "The Enchiridion of Epictetus I had ever with me, often as my sole rational companion; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling." Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else?
He was referring to the great scholar's own notes, which are polemical, and not intended to please monks. The founder of the Jesuits would have doubtless regarded them as most detestable blasphemy. The Enchiridion, on the other hand, is a purely devotional book, though written for a man of the world.
'King Ferdinand invites me, with large promises, to come to Vienna, he writes from Basle, 1 October 1528, 'but nowhere would it please me better to rest than in Brabant. Later Erasmus was made to believe that Longolius was a Hollander, cf. At Tournehem: 1501 The restoration of theology now the aim of his life He learns Greek John Vitrier Enchiridion Militis Christiani
Now to say something of my works I think you have read the Enchiridion, through which not a few confess themselves inspired to the study of piety; I make no claim for myself, but give thanks to Christ for any good which has come to pass through me by His giving. I do not know whether you have seen the Adagia, printed by Aldus.
The note of the Enchiridion is already what was to remain the note of Erasmus's life-work: how revolting it is that in this world the substance and the shadow differ so and that the world reverences those whom it should not reverence; that a hedge of infatuation, routine and thoughtlessness prevents mankind from seeing things in their true proportions.
Was there, then, any objection to his works: the Enchiridion, the Adagia? The fact that, since his stay in Italy, he had laid aside the habit of his order and wore a common clerical dress, he could excuse on a number of grounds. The conclusion was: I shall not return to Holland. 'I know that I shall not be able to stand the air and the food there; all eyes will be directed to me.
Erasmus complied with the request and Jean Vitrier concurred so cordially with the views expressed in these notes that Erasmus afterwards elaborated them at Louvain; in 1504 they were published at Antwerp by Dirck Maertensz. This is the outward genesis of the Enchiridion.
This small altercation did not interrupt the friendship of the two brothers, nor their correspondence by letters, which continued till Grotius's death. William, besides the book we have already mentioned, wrote another on the law of nature, entitled, Willelmi Grotii de principiis Juris Naturalis Enchiridion. This work is much inferior to the treatise Of War and Peace.
Having progressed from scholasticism to Saint Paul, he had formed a very liberal conception of Christian life, strongly opposed to practices and ceremonies. This man, without doubt, considerably influenced the origin of one of Erasmus's most celebrated and influential works, the Enchiridion militis Christiani. Erasmus himself afterwards confessed that the Enchiridion was born by chance.
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