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Műhelyek vagytok [ti. a kollégiumi tanári lakások a Farkas utcából], ahol forr a munka, s szüntelenül tart, szentélyek vagytok, a melyekben a hazafiság oltártüzei lobogva égnek, a családi erények tűzhelyei, Zenon oszlopcsarnoka s a házak szűk udvarai s kertjei kitágulnak Akademos ligetjeivé a Heraklesnek szentelt oltárral, mert bizony nagy munkaerő kell és sok munkaerő kellett a tanári kötelességek buzgó lelkiismeretes teljesítésére.” Ez hangzott el Szilágyi Sándor történész szülőházára helyezett emléktáblájának avatóünnepségén. Szilágyi Sándor ifj. Szilágyi Ferenc fia, id. Szilágyi Ferenc unokája.

It is often argued that the sixteenth-century Reformation initiated a chain of events that ultimately led not only to religious pluralism within the body of the Western Christian Church, but also to the rise and dispersion of mutual acceptance among various religious groups. The fact, however, that these two things (i.e. religious pluralism and tolerance) did not emerge directly and immediately (almost as a matter of course) from the Reformation itself, is similarly undeniable. As we shall see below, we have sufficient evidence to claim that although the Reformers – including John Calvin, Theodore Beza and others, with whom this paper is partly concerned – at some point in their lives (mostly in their youth) advocated and invocated the cultivation of the spirit of tolerance, most of them refrained from upholding such positions once their situation as leaders within a newly emerged (both religious and political) community or realm became established.