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