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in Grecian legend, was, according to Homer, the daughter of Atlas, and inhabited the solitary wooded isle of Ogygia, far apart from all gods and men. her island by shipwreck, she treated him. kindly, and promised him immortality if Ulysses being thrown upon were essentially what are now called Presbyterian. He held also that the Church should be spiritually independent of the State, but was willing the discipline of the Church should be carried out by the civil power. This last opinion, followed to its logical conclu- he would marry her. sion, involved him in heavy responsibility for the death of his Socinian antagonist, Servetus, the capital punishment of whom for alleged heresy was approved of not merely by Calvin, but by the other reformers, not excepting the gentle Melanchthon. No one in those days seems to have clearly understood religious liberty.

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