PREFACE IT can hardly be denied that the men who have most chang! LD histories have been the great religious leader. "Priest, Teacher," says Carlyle, " whatsoever we can fancy to reside in man, em bodies itself here, to command over us to furnish us with constant practical tea(hing to tell llS for the day and hour what we are to do." Among the great prophets, apd, with the possible exception of Calvin-, the last of world-wide importance, Martin Luther has taken his place. His career marks the· beginning of the present epoch, for it is safe to say that every man in western Europe and in America is leading a different life to-day from what he would have led, and is another persall altogether from what he would have been, bad1fartin Luther not lived. For the most important fact in modern history is undoubtedly the great schism of which he was the author, the consequences of which are still unfolding aI; ld will continue to unfold for many a century to come. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Life and Letters of Martin Luther (Preserved Smith)