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Here and there, however, a manly old fellow, like Pope
Julius II, who made Michael Angelo sculpture him with
a drawn sword in his hand, or a Cardinal, like Pole or
Allen, and many Bishops, managed to believe that faith
and nature might he reconciled by taking a comprehensive
and truly Catholic view of both.
The leading English and German Eeformers wore their
Beards ; (if Luther confined himself to a moustache, it was
because his Monkish habit of shaving was too strong for
him,) and most of the Martyrs to the Protestant Faith were
burnt in their Beards.
