. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. s howerer,condemned to be burnt; which sentence he endured with heroic fortitude May 30, 1416. • Martin Luther, the great reformer, was born November 10,1483, at Eisleben, in Lower Saxony. Bifl father, Hans Luther,was a poor miner, and BOOH after bifl BOD birth Bettledwith his pious and industrious wife, Margaret, at ifansf
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. s howerer,condemned to be burnt; which sentence he endured with heroic fortitude May 30, 1416. • Martin Luther, the great reformer, was born November 10,1483, at Eisleben, in Lower Saxony. Bifl father, Hans Luther,was a poor miner, and BOOH after bifl BOD birth Bettledwith his pious and industrious wife, Margaret, at ifansfelcL Atthe age of fourteen he was Bent to the Bchoo] of Magdeburg, from which he removed to Eisenach, and thence t the University eiErfurt, where, in L503, be received hie first md fcwc later, baring obtained the degree f doctor of philosophy, he de-livered lectures on the Physics and Ethics <-f Aristotle. 1 If wasdestined by bis father for the legal profession, but the iniprcBsionproduced on him by the fat. of his friend Al»-xis. who was stricken dead by lightning while iralking by his side on the road from Mans- feld to Erfart, uniting iriUi the affect <»f bis early reli tion, induced him to devote himself to the monastic life Hi. 68 BIOGRAPHIES OF IMPORTANT CHARACTERS entered the monastery of the Augustines in 1505, submitting pa-tiently to all the penances and humiliations which the superior of theorder imposed upon novices. During his residence in the monasteryhe studied with great enthusiasm the writings of St. Augustine, andpassed through severe mental conflicts, seeking vainly for guidanceor consolation. In 1507 he was ordained priest, and in 1508 hewas made professor of philosophy in the new university of Witten-berg. In this sphere of action his powerful mind son showed it-self ; he threw off the fetters of the scholastic philosophy, assertedthe rights of reason, and attracted a large number of disciples. Hewas called by the senate to preach, and it was with
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