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recommending his pupils to read Plato. lie endeavoured to make logic 

 generally comprehensible by freeing it of sophistical verbiage, and he very 

 ingeniously made use of this new logic to inculcate in the minds of his pupils 

 the maxims of the Reformation, for he was a Calvinist with fanatical 

 tendencies. He was cited before the parliament, not for his religious 

 opinions, but for his blasphemies against peripatclicism, and though his trial 



Fig. 53. Portrait of Erasmus, after a Wood Engraving of the Sixteenth Century. 

 National Library, Paris. Cabinet of Designs. 



was not of an inquisitorial character, he was condemned, deprived of his 

 professor's chair at the Royal College, and compelled to leave the country. 

 His implacable enemies, Antonio de Govea, Jacques Charpentier, and others 

 saw in him less the Huguenot than the detractor of Aristotle. Ramus, who 

 had become the chief of the small school of Ramists, went to lecture in the 



