CHAPTER X.

A Protestant Germany--A Divided Protestantism--True Meaning of the Struggle--Unfruitful Waiting--The Renaissance--Music, Art, Letters, Born Anew--Thought Awakened--Copernicus--Galileo--Kepler--Impending Calamity--Protestant Union and Catholic League--Thirty Years' War Commenced--Wallenstein--Gustavus Adolphus--His Triumph and Death--Richelieu--Death of Wallenstein--Peace of Westphalia--Division of Territory