stand in the foreground. The pastor, a zealous shepherd of his flock, wages war on the old ineradicable sins and vices, against the frivolity of youth, the vanity of women, the carelessness of mothers and the harshness of men, against intemperance and love of pleasure; he exhorts to love one’s neighbour and to fulfil the Christian duties; even the sermon on a feast-day suddenly takes on a moralistic slant. Where the conditions are right, such a way of going on is appropriate. Its justification lies