HOSPITALS, NURSING AND CARE FOR THE INSANE 192 The humanity that cares for the ailing. Neglect in more recent times; jail-like hospitals without trained attendants. Beautiful Renaissance hospitals. Florence's Home of the Innocents. _Ospedale Maggiore_, Milan. _Santo Spirito Hospital_, Rome. Hospitals of the Beguines, Netherlands. St. John's Hospital, Bruges. Ample water supplies. Religious uniform and cleanliness. Sir Thomas More on hospitals. Brothers of Mercy in Spain. The Do-good Little Brothers. Care of the insane. Spain the leader. The "open door." Subsequent abuses. Italian asylums. Subsequent decadence CHAPTER III ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA AND THE JESUITS 206 A great genius in organization. Career. Political and religious situation in Europe. A new knighthood. {xiii} The "Little Company of Jesus." The Spiritual Exercises. Jesuit Missions: India, Japan, China, South America, Reductions of Paraguay, North America. Jesuit Relations, gathering and transmitting knowledge. Education of the Jesuits; great pupils; bibliography. Activity in the sciences. Jesuit astronomers. In other fields. All things to all men. Ignatius' legacy of persecution and contumely CHAPTER IV SIR THOMAS MORE AND SOME CONTEMPORARIES 223 An artist in human will. England at More's birth. Youth. Marriage. Opposes the King. Studies, Louvain, Paris. Busy barrister, care for the poor. Friendship with Erasmus. Family life. Margaret More. Linacre. Dean Colet. Lyly. John Caius. More's English writings. Utopia. Controversial writings. Lord Chancellor,--clears the docket. Honors and wealth or duty and death. More's choice. Trying situation. Humor on the scaffold. Lord Campbell on his execution; on the Lord Chancellors who succeeded him CHAPTER V THE REFORMERS 243 Reformation or religious revolt. Change in education and its effect on men's minds. Janssen on intellectual movement of the Renaissance. Reformers, Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII. False impressions as to reformation, Hallam. Political corruption. Luther, Denifle, Grisar. Luther on indulgences. Luther and Zwingli. Judgments of God. Luther and Melanchthon condone bigamy. McGiffert's comment. Luther's discouragement. Calvin the austere. Life without relaxation. Calvin's discouragement. Execution of Servetus. Henry VIII's conscience. How the English people were robbed of their religion. Cobbett, Macaulay, Frederic Harrison and Professor Powell on the English and Scottish reformers. Professor Briggs on Saints of the Reformation. The counter-reformation. Effects of the reformation CHAPTER VI GREAT EXPLORERS AND EMPIRE BUILDERS 262