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Methods were utterly mechanical, although some of the text-books were based on reasonable principles. As we have seen, Humanism was not one of the direct causes of the Reformation, but was used by the latter as a welcome auxiliary to furnish means in the defence of truth. Only a few rather eccentric younger Human- ists dreamt of return to classical paganism, as was common with the learned Italians. As to the aBsthetical side of the Renaissance, the Italian influences entered Germany, not only t...hrough direct communication with Southern Germany, but in part by way of the Nether- lands, where after the change in the economical con- ditions of the interior, German culture was at its highest. CHAPTER XXVI CHANGE IN GENERAL CONDITIONS Beginning of Decay AFTER geographical discoveries had changed the routes of commerce, the importance of the Atlantic coast was greatly increased ; the great rise of the northern provinces of the Netherlands had freed Holland from the yoke of the Spanish Habsburgers, and the spirit of the Reformation, although introduced in the form of Calvinism, had taken hold of the leading classes ; humanistic education, and the training given by commercial enterprises that reached all parts of the globe, had widened their view sufficiently to admit of a truly religious movement.
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