Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . which took its origin from that move-ment of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which we knowby the name of the Renaissance. Of the genuine attach-ment of Bishop Fisher, the true founder of S. Johns, to theNew Learning there can be no doubt. He showed it clearlyenough by the sympathy which he evinced with the newspirit of Biblical Criticism, and by the friendship withErasmus, which induced that great scholar to accept theLady Margaret professorship at Cambridge. That
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Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . which took its origin from that move-ment of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which we knowby the name of the Renaissance. Of the genuine attach-ment of Bishop Fisher, the true founder of S. Johns, to theNew Learning there can be no doubt. He showed it clearlyenough by the sympathy which he evinced with the newspirit of Biblical Criticism, and by the friendship withErasmus, which induced that great scholar to accept theLady Margaret professorship at Cambridge. That the studyot Greek was allowed to go on in the University withoutthat active antagonism which it encountered at Oxford wasmainly owing—it is the testimony of Erasmus himself—tothe powerful protection which it received from BishopFisher. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that hisattachment to the papal cause, and his hostility to Luther, whom he rightly enough regarded as a Reformer of a verydifferent type to that of his friends Erasmus, Colet, and More, remained unshaken. On the occasion of the burning 248 r ^i*. j»