Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-10
Ali srcIloneoms.
From putnams Monthly.
CORNELIUS AGRIPPA-D0CTOR, KNIGHT
AND MAGICIAN.

telling' ms rho trntI nbnpt tho f,mous C,rnelius
Aprinna. the friend of Erasmus. the cxpositor of
RenchIin. the oliv Of Luther and Zuinplr. and tn
or,hnr 81 ono ~ ,La n,ns, loorncd wnrHHs nn n,ag;c
that we have
Where Agr;nno ia known. he is known ms n
magician. In the sixteenth century, everybody
knew that he was in commerce with the devil, to
whom he has sold his soul. Charitable Butler only
says that
hgrfippa kept a G'yg'en pug
I'm garo ana haDit OF a uoH'
mat was MS tutor ana 'he cur
heau 10 tne occult PuIosopnel,
Anu tausnt nlm eu"uy - ''
AL o'u0r seie"'e9 "o '""'
But Southey copies q monkish tale describing
his study
ann ,o..ou,or u.;4.o, ,u;.t hlooa ,hor0;n
- "'r o 9So nn IL, -
n"0 '" ''"'e' "0io N'"N00 "'"' "'" ''N''
And there was no doubt, in the days Of Sir Wal
ter Raleigh, that such was the fact and that the
wretched sorcerer had been better burnt. We
shall now see, under the guidance of Mr.. Morley,
what basis underlay this opinion. The task should
be the more grateful, as 1t must incidentally open
up a page in the worlds history which we, ut all
events, in fast America. are Fastening to forget;
also, because it can hardly fail to shed some not
uncertain light upon the commencement OF that
great struggle for freedom ct thought ana OPINION
which we call the reformation. viewed from so
lofty an eminence as the lie OF Agr'2pa-,Who'
sorcerer or not. was scnoIar' not second 10 EraS-
mus, a theologlan OF hlgh degree a learned phy-
sician' a famous soIuler a lawyer OF hote' ana
perhaps the hrst ph!ySlclstot MS aay-that memo
OraDie passage III histofy e"uuoV OuV w Seen W "u
vantage
Three years after the birth Of Luther, and rear
" twelve months before that Of Zuingle, a son
was born to the noble house of Nettesheim, Of
Cologne, poor but faithful servants of Germany.
This son was named Cornelius, and, as it appelrs,
+ha fnr.bor m, Of Arr;pOo ~ n1Ip1 /, Obn1i-
ence to ancient custom, because the child had en-
tered the world feet foremost. Cologne, where
the boy received his education, was a place of
much trade and intellectual movement. Exercised
now tnr many years by a terce strife between
handlcratt ana prleStcrait, to the utter dlScomht-
ure OF the latter at last-irom having been priest
riaoen' the people roGe thelr prleSsc ~ pI"ce' 700,
Oh s,range hunnor III let'Srs; u ~ nso "uI ,c9
nhu Vntrty ooohs p.inteu mere pel"Geh no
% Tnen e"e ny = i,n.ns oToo was amu
,o00, 'oui' een ""iS "ol0 A".'n 0'"S''I'' NV Nv,
nunu[eu "Su sAsoen oI E u sJ Mh HaJ
~ h Suon M"s nc 80 w Mnno 'No '""O
Vi young OoInelius ASHPPa " ie"leu'
Lnu W I int y ' ne T E;rU u" si sg'f re- 10 .no I'm =
re- 80 a. - aL;a - S| ~ ~ " Di ~
VI Ear " nts Tni", '"o 9ou.n WI iulot 'r9n ne
aote = - 'n2V'' T. ""u an.nTornd - ~
lono"nG = e. neir,o " eIPio.e1 !"
s"aious f' u Wv s'V ~ In" = h Ia : a. n
t"n. ~ ~ :, .ha boot % rn tmanors ton,L Nv
inc the regency of CASTLE, alike claimed by Ferdi-
nand of Spain and Maximiiian of Austria. The
crown of CASTLE having passed, at the death of Is
abella. to her daughter, Joanna and her husband.
Phil,p. son of Macmillan was suddenly vacated
by the death Of Pbilip Mt the age of twentv-eirht;
and the question arose, which of the two fathers
should be reCent-the father of the late monarch
Philip, or the father of Joanna, in whose right the
sovereign title had lain. While each monarch was
striving to carry his point, the kingdom was aban.
noned to anarchy, which, spreading, shook all law
and authority in Ararun and Catalonia, and omen.
ed a gloriou- field for so enterprising a sovereign
as Macmillan.
n, .b;s Tho st,aoot &c tuontr ootod J;rb IN
e -.
1850 etua y "a st4iu .Ho ~" ~,
nsJo: ~ t"sSGI =: ~ " 'n"'
".' NV "0'' = N,' A"'.o' '"0 '"p0'oi'
AT Dole-once CAMEO Dole IA Joye"Se' but since
us capture by u rrehch army thirty years before,
Dole Ia dotcHte me iouhu an opening mistress 0;
Dole and OF Burgundy was Margaret, daughter OF
Maxlmilian' 10 Ler service the young scholar at
tacheu hinlseil' AS an Introduction to her ana the
learned world at Doie' ne delivered a course OF
lectures on l'euchIIhs 'hlrlhc word"
This was the work which the soldier, Cornelius
Agrippa, eXpounded with Jealous encomium be-
fore the university of Dole. His learning, has elo-
quence, his impressive delivery, carried everything
before them. Margaret acknowledged him as her
SeI.nnN uhu Il Uhi'eisiJ e'e"'eu Mn d uoctor VI
u'lniy'
For the still higher honor OF his noble mistress,
Agrippa now composed his first great work to
prove the superiority of woman over man. A few
oil his arguments illustrate the learning and habit
of thought of the age. Man was called Adam,
which means Earth; but woman Eva, which means
Lille. BY as much, therefore, as life is better than
earth, woman exceis man. Next comes the idea
which burns has so prettlly ve~rslhed-that woman
beng the last work OF God, was necessarily the
perfection OF the adornment Of the heavens and
the earth. Passing to DnNSlcal considerations