...s gathered up every trait and every trifle, the minutest, of his life, and you may read it spread out in loving admiration on a thousand pages of biography. Calvin's life is written in Scotland and New England , in the triumphs of the people against priestcraft and power. To him, more than to any other man, the Puritans owed republicanism,--the republicanism of the Church. The instinct of his day recogn...