CHAPTER XXXV

. LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIETY AND

EDUCATION (_continued from Vol. V._) _pages_ 3-98

3. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND HIGHER EDUCATION.

Luther’s appeals on behalf of the schools; polemical trend of his appeals; his ideal of elementary education; study of the Bible and the classics. The decline in matters educational after the introduction of the innovations; higher education before Luther’s day; results achieved by Luther _pages_ 3-41

4. BENEVOLENCE AND RELIEF OF THE POOR.

Organised charity in late mediæval times. Luther’s attempts to arrange for the relief of the poor; the “Poor-boxes”; Bugenhagen’s work; the sad effects of the confiscation of Church-property; and of the doctrine that good works are valueless _pages_ 42-65

5. LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WORLDLY CALLINGS.

Whether Luther’s claim can stand that he was the first to preach the dignity of worldly callings? His depreciation of the several classes of the nation due to his estrangement from them. Attitude towards the merchant-class. His Old-Testament ideas react on his theories about usury and interest; his views on the lawfulness of permanent investments, etc. _pages_ 65-98

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