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learning, and it was believed among the brethren that he had Blahoslav particularly in view. The latter repelled these attacks in the treatise which I have just " It named. and has been for years," he writes, " the custom of some somewhat prominent men to quote, for the purpose of disparaging the ancient teachers {i.e. the fathers of the Church), saying of Brother Lucas, according to which he had written nothing which he had not found within the Unity. And they explained thus that Brother Lucas had taken nothing from the ancient teachers, but that he had learnt what the Unity possessed when he joined and then wrote, &c. also Most year ago heard Brother Augusta state this. certainly those who thus expound Brother Lucas did not understand, and do not understand his words. Could but Brother Lucas hear them, what evil thanks would Where that saintly man. Brother he render them Lawrence Krasonick^, that he could by word of mouth vividly explain this to them. What he has written in his books they will not read, because of the weakness of their intellects, and because their minds are full of vanity. " But as those men who could have treated this subwill write down ject usefully are no longer with us, now on my mind. briefly what " In the days of Brother Lucas the Unity had many enemies against whom he had to write by order of the fashion that did not stir He had to write in elders. up enemies nor open the gates of the Unity to the foe, but rather reduced to silence, and even to assent, one opponent by this, another by that argument. That he continued obnoxious to some in spite of his labours known. There were also some who feared that he would