. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. t indefensi-ble acts of modern times. Because the German people placed su-preme confidence in their leaders and knewnothing of current opinion except as it wascarefully prepared for them, they did notduring the war understand the horror withwhich civilization viewed the atrocity. Later,confronted with the true feeling, they pro-fessed amazement. LUTE, a stringed musical instrument, simi-lar to a guitar, formerly very popular inEurope. I
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. t indefensi-ble acts of modern times. Because the German people placed su-preme confidence in their leaders and knewnothing of current opinion except as it wascarefully prepared for them, they did notduring the war understand the horror withwhich civilization viewed the atrocity. Later,confronted with the true feeling, they pro-fessed amazement. LUTE, a stringed musical instrument, simi-lar to a guitar, formerly very popular inEurope. It consists of four parts: namelythe table or belly, with a large round hole inthe middle; the body, ribbed like a melon,with nine or ten ribs, or di^nsions; the neck,which has nine or ten stops, oy frets, whichdi\-ide the strings into semitones; and thehead, or cross, in which are fitted the pegs, orscrews, for tuning the strings. There are adozen pairs of strings, each pair tuned inoctaves or in unison. The strings are struckbj the fingers of the right hand, and thesounds are regulated by those of the left,which manipulate the frets. LUTHER 2190 LUTHER. Home InPrankfort-on-the-Main -== sor UTHER, Martin (1483-1546), the founder ofProtestantism, was bornat Eisleben, in GermanSaxonj. He was of poorparentage, his father be-ing a miner. When butI twenty years of age he^ was graduated as masterof philosophy at Erfurtin Thuringia; in 1505 heentered the monastery ofthe Augustinians at Er-furt, and two years laterwas consecrated following year, bythe influence of his pa-tron, Staupitz, who wasdistrict vicar of the order,Luther was made profes-of philosophy in thenew university of Wittenberg. At first helectured upon the jDhilosophy of Aristotle,but soon turned his attention to the Bible,and his lectures on this subject attracted somuch attention that Staupitz prevailed uponhim to preach regularly in the monasteiychurch at Wittenberg. In 1512, upon hisreturn from a visit to
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