Produced by Charles Bowen Transcriber's Notes: 1. Source: Web Archive at "http://www.archive.org/stream/ lifetimesofulric00hott/lifetimesofulric00 hott_djvu.txt" [Illustration: Switzerland] THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ULRIC ZWINGLI TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF J. J. HOTTINGER. BY THE REV. PROF. T. C. PORTER, OF FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, LANCASTER, PA. * * * * * * HARRISBURG: PUBLISHED BY THEO. F. SCHEFFER. 1856. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by THEO. F. SCHEFFER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * Author's Preface. "Biographers should not busy themselves so much with deeds, as their moving causes; with what motives, by what means, for what ends and under what circumstances they were performed. If we limit ourselves to a simple detail of facts, our judgment is determined by success; and upright men are condemned as evil or imprudent, because of the unfavorable issue of their endeavors. To set forth the views of Zwingli and the high mark to which he strove to carry everything, were dangerous--would open a wide door to envy and calumniation, and would not be permitted by the government of Zurich; since it would be a violation of the _Landfriede_, various resolutions of the cities and the Hereditary Union with Austria. Without this, however, the history of his life would be dry, and posterity would neither admire nor love Zwingli, but regard him as a thoughtless, foolish man. The unhappy catastrophe has placed everything in a false light."