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T's and Cs apply. Let us begin, the second episode of our reading and discussion of makers of the modern mind.

We're halfway through the Luther chapter and here it goes.

What sort of person was this man who had managed to become a German hero against the Roman churchman?

By disposition, by temperament, by personal equipment,

he was a natural leader of men. For his was a forceful personality which few could resist on

close and continuous contact. His enemies spoke of the demoniac power of his eyes. His followers

marveled at the divine sparkle in them. Luther impressed people.

He never argued. He never reasoned. He thundered a denunciation or shouted down opposition,

steam-rollering his opponents and smashing them under strong accusations or withering them with his biting satirical

wit. His coming out of seclusion to Wittenberg, for example, was impressive. Disguised as

Squire George, he had hidden at the Wartburg Castle after he had been declared an outlaw by

the Edict of Verms in 1521. But when the religious situation got out of hand

at his hometown of Wittenberg, Luther did not hesitate to enter the village boldly, preach

eight sermons on consecutive days, and overwhelmed the, quote, radicals who were trying to snatch

the leadership of the religious revolt from him.

It took courage and it took ability.

Luther had both, and the people admired him for it.

He was strong then and forceful in an emotional way, but he was more than that.

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