CHAPTER III.. Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance.

RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.

Inevitable subjectivity 490

Worldliness 492

Tolerance of Mohammedanism 492

Equivalence of all religions 494

Influence of antiquity 495

The so-called Epicureans 496

The doctrine of free will 497

The pious Humanists 499

The less pronounced Humanists 499

Codrus Urceus 500

The beginnings of religious criticism 501

Fatalism of the Humanists 503

Their pagan exterior 504