With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luthers lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism The Anabaptists refuted all law, since they held that the good man will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who cannot be bound by formulas. From this premiss they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance. But their doctrine, in softened forms, spread to Holland, England and America, historically, it is the source of Quakerism.p. xxi.