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- 18 - Lutheranism began, the theology of Lutheranism has completed. It would be irrelevant to my purpose to discuss here the theological dogma of "justification by faith." My whole point is indeed that the problem of Lutheranism is not a theological problem at all but merely a political problem. The doctrine of justification moreover is neither Lutheran, nor is it specifically Calvinistic or Catholic. You can find it in some form in every Church. But the truly significant and peculiar fact is that in the Lutheran Church it has come to mean the dissociation between faith and works, between religion and lite, between theory and practice. That baffling German mind, to which I several times referred, is working in double compartments. It owes a dual allegiance. The German happens to live in two worlds. He lives in an inner world of emotions and speculations, and he at the same time lives in an outer world of political and social activities. And there is no connecting link between the two worlds.

I would compare that uncanny duality of the German mind and the influence of the Lutheran policy to the working of that mysterious Indian poison which