Excerpt from Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 2 Colet, dying in 15 19, had the good fortune to pass away before Englishmen had to take sides between Henry and the pope. His illustrious and somewhat younger friend, Sir Thomas More, suffered death for his conviction that the pope and not Henry VIII was the supreme head of the Church in England. And long before he died, the soul of More must have been riven by some sense of the incon sistency between the ideal radicalism of his Utopia, with its suave tolerance in religion, and the Violent language of the later controversial writings of its author and his stern suppression of heresy when Lord Chancellor. To explain this problem of More's possible duality, there may be no need to assume changes in the man himself be tween early manhood and middle age. The same nature may always have existed in this admirable person; but life's exigencies may have permitted some of his qualities to slumber while they enlisted others in active service, turning potency perhaps to strident fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.