"Humanist, anti-dogmatist, war-hater, internationalist, lover of fine letters; humourist, satirist, Christian freethinker; smiter of humbugs, roaster of shams; vivid depicter of a life that in its externals has changed, but in its essentials is unchanging; lover of humanity; seer of a noble vision of unity in diversity, which the world to its loss and sorrow passed by; prophet, thus, of an ideal to which in changed form we must return - and which indeed we already are, at Geneva and elsewhere, tentatively seeking to re-embody: such was Erasmus, the first of the moderns." From the "Introduction in Praise of Erasmus" by Horace J. Bridges.