Stock in Protestant Christianity was way up when Erasmus bought into the excitement. Expecting, as Metternich would later with politics, that a tradition of Christianity could be the force to keep mankind's bubble("homo bulla") aloft, he misread the disordered signs of the time.

Continuous revolution, not revelation, marked the Reformation and later Age of Metternich.

Nonetheless, a last stand in Praise of Folly, like vocal ministry confronting the principle of Quaker-uncertainty, was offered before the aloofness of quiet submission. Surrounded by those who would ReverseEVOLUTION for a chance to be on top, he sought the protection of a sterile bubble of devotion.

Refinement of style and a classical approach to language were both his trademark and gradual seclusion from the common cause. As a needed humanist of renewal for an ecstatic renaissance, he was, in fact, Gerhard Gerhards, or Geert Geerts.

Easily, I think, this boy in the bubble could have been a Quaker blogging, in fact, on QuakerQuaker's. The only question is whose bubble will burst first.