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Rh 23 Luther's Tischreden in der Matthesischen Sammlung," published by Ernst Kroker from a Ms. of the city library at Leipzig (Schriften der Koeniglichen Saechsischen Kommission fuer Geschichte VIII), Leipzig, 1903.

24 Koenigliches Gymnasium zu Clausthal. Festschrift zu der am 30. Sept., 1905, stattfindenden Einweihung des neuen Schulgebaeudes. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1905.

25 Wilhelm Meyer "Ueber Lauterbachs und Aurifabers Samm- lungen der Tischreden Luthers (Abhandlungen der Koeniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen. Philolog.-historische Klasse, N. F. 1. Band Nr. 2), Berlin, 1896.

26 "Luther's Table Talk." A critical Study by Preserved Smith (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, vol. XXVI, No. 2), New York, 1907.

27 This is a statement of the church historian Ignatius von Doellinger who wrote, as follows, concerning Luther in 1871: "Luther's predominant intellectual powers and his wonderful versatility made him the man of his time and of his people. And this is true in every sense. There never was a German who knew his people so deeply and was so completely understood by them, I would even say, so taken into the hearts and minds of his people, as this Augustinian monk of Wittenberg. Mind and spirit of the Germans were in his hand, as the lyre in the hand of the artist. For he gave to his people more than one man ever did in all Christendom: language, catechism, Bible, churchsong. Everything his antagonists possessed, to oppose or supplant him with, appeared feeble, flat and colorless alongside of his all-compelling eloquence. They stammered, he spoke. He alone, impressed upon the German soul as upon the German language the ineffaceable seal of his soul. And even those Germans who hate him from the bottom of their souls and who look upon him as an heretic and seducer from the true religion, even they can not do otherwise than talk with his words and think with his thoughts." (Doellinger, Die Wiedervereinigung der christlichen Kirchen. Noerdlingen, 1888, p. 53.)

28 The author had the pleasure of looking over a large part of the proof sheets of the immense volume containing the catechisms.