The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
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The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth is by Lewis Henry Berens, and its heading describes it as revealed in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger mystic and rationalist, communist and social reformer. The text says the Reformation in Germany degenerated into a mere political movement, and fell almost entirely into the hands of princes and politicians. The author quotes one of the Reformation's modern admirers as saying that the Reformation did not at first carry with it much cleansing force of moral enthusiasm.
A song headed The Diggers Song calls on the noble Diggers to stand up now, and says the Gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown. The text gives the aim as to reconcile, or rather to stand as mediator between all the opposing sects.
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- Lewis Henry Berens
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- 260
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- English
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