The work of this young professorand his disciples was to dethrone the heavy Protestant orthodoxyto undermine the pedantry which had paralyzed German scholarship, to substitute thought for formulas, to bring right reason to bear upon international and municipal law, to discredit religious intolerance, to root out witchcraft persecution and procedure by torture from all modern codes, and to begin that emancipation, of public and especially university instruction from theological control,which today is invincibly making its way in all other lands, including our own.
Andrew Dickson White