| CHAPTER XXXV. LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIETY AND EDUCATION (continued from Vol. V.) | pages 3-98 |
| 3. Elementary Schools and Higher Education. |
| Luther’s appeals on behalf of the schools; polemical trend of his appeals; his ideal of elementary education; study of the Bible and the classics. The decline in matters educational after the introduction of the innovations; higher education before Luther’s day; results achieved by Luther | pages 3-41 |
| 4. Benevolence and Relief of the Poor. |
| Organised charity in late mediÆval times. Luther’s attempts to arrange for the relief of the poor; the “Poor-boxes”; Bugenhagen’s work; the sad effects of the confiscation of Church-property; and of the doctrine that good works are valueless | pages 42-65 |
| 5. Luther’s Attitude towards Worldly Callings. |
| Whether Luther’s claim can stand that he was the first to preach the dignity of worldly callings? His depreciation of the several classes of the nation due to his estrangement from them. Attitude towards the merchant-class. His Old-Testament ideas react on his theories about usury and interest; his views on the lawfulness of permanent investments, etc. | pages 65-98 |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. THE DARKER SIDE OF LUTHER’S INNER LIFE. HIS AILMENTS | pages 99-186 |
| 1. Early Sufferings, Bodily and Mental. |
| Fits of fear, palpitations, swoons, nervousness; his temptations no mere morbid phenomena | pages 99-112 |
| 2. Psychic Problems of Luther’s Religious Development. |
| Temptations to despair. The shadow of pseudo-mysticism. Temptations of the flesh | pages 112-122 |
| 3. Ghosts, Delusions, Apparitions of the Devil. |
| The statements regarding Luther’s intercourse with the beyond and his visions of the devil. The misunderstood reference to his disputation with the devil on the Mass. His belief in possession and exorcism | pages 122-140 |
| 4. Revelation and Illusion. Morbid Trains of Thought. |
| His conviction that he was the recipient of a special revelation; his apparent withdrawals of this claim. His so-called “temptations” viewed by him as confirming his mission; his persuasion that the Pope is Antichrist, that his opponents are all egged on by the devil and that no man on earth can compare with him. His tendency to self-contradiction; his changeableness, his feverish polemics | pages 141-171 |
| 5. Luther’s Psychology according to Physicians and Historians. |
| Whether Luther’s mind was abnormal, or whether all his symptoms are to be explained by uric acid, or by degeneracy | pages 172-186 |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. LUTHER’S LATER EMBELLISHMENT OF HIS EARLY LIFE | pages 187-236 |
| 1. Luther’s later Picture of his Convent-Life and Apostasy. |
| The legend about his first appearance on the field of history. His supposed excessive holiness-by-works during his monastic days | pages 187-205 |
| 2. The Reality. Luther’s Falsification of History. |
| Inward peace and happiness in his monastic days; his vows and their breach; some peculiarities of his humility; his feverish addiction to his work; the facts around which his later legend grew | pages 205-229 |
| 3. The Legend receives its last touch; how it was used. |
| Forged in the solitude of the Coburg. His characteristic passage from the “I” to the “we.” His monkish “experience” useful to him | pages 229-236 |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. END OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. THE CHURCH-UNSEEN AND THE VISIBLE CHURCH-BY-LAW | pages 237-340 |
| 1. From Religious Licence to Religious Constraint. |
| Freedom as Luther’s early watchword. Intolerance towards Catholics, in theory, and in practice. Sanguinary threats against all papists; the death-penalty pronounced against “sectarians” at home; his justification: blasphemy must be put down. The people driven to the new preaching; no freedom of conscience allowed: Luther’s intolerance imitated by his friends | pages 237-279 |
| 2. Luther as Judge. |
| The pigheadedness and arrogance of all the “sectarians.” None of them are sure of their cause; none of them can work miracles | pages 279-289 |
| 3. The Church-Unseen, its Origin and Early History. |
| Luther’s invisible Church; her marks; only the predestined are members; his shifting theory | pages 290-3
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