ew, in
Bern, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Appenzell and partly even in Solothurn, the
confidence in the Five Cantons was not so strong as among the deputies
of these states at the Diet, and when they brought home a report of the
proceedings in Baden, a very decided feeling was manifested among the
councils and people. Our attention must now be directed chiefly to
Basel and Bern.

In Basel, the higher classes, with but few exceptions, were unfavorable
to the Reformation. The bishop and the chapter of the Cathedral
exercised considerable influence. The University also, in the greater
part of its members, was not the least inclined to the new dogmas and
forms. [OE]colampadius, who, a short time before, had become a
professor there, stood nearly isolated among his colleagues, especially
since Pellican (Conrad Kuersner), former teacher of the Hebrew
language, his tried friend and companion in the faith, had accepted
a call to Zurich. Erasmus, startled from his proud and comfortable
ease--summoned from his student's chamber, whence he was accustomed to
lord it over the learned world, to conflicts before turbulent
assemblies of the people, began to exhibit more and more dislike toward
this revolutionary agitation. When he met [OE]colampadius, to whom he
had before shown much good-will, on the street, he turned away from him
with an aversion, which he did not strive to conceal. It is true, he
disdained also to take part in the dark doings of the monks, those
heresy-hunters of the Roman See; but appears to have seen, not without
pleasure, the quarrel, then already rising between the Reformers
themselves, touching the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, and used it so,
as to decide in favor of no party, read lectures to all, and maintain
as long as possible his former superior position over against them. His
correspondence, indeed, all his connection with Zwingli had ceased. But
the latter had to experience something still more severe in the
behavior of Glareanus, the first and warmest friend of his youth. As
late as the first Religious Conference in Zurich he had expressed to
Zwingli his joy and approval of the result, and for a time took his
part with Erasmus. Now he turned away from the Reformers more decidedly
than the old theologian himself, became more and more violent in his
enmity to them and their cause, and like Erasmus, though two months
earlier, left Basel, which had become hateful to him, in order to
settle as an academical tea