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Luther sent with this letter, as a present to the Pope, a pamphlet entitled 'On the Liberty of a Christian Man. This is no controversial treatise intended for the great struggle of churchmen and theologians, but a tract to minister to 'simple men. For their benefit he wished to describe compendiously the 'sum of a Christian life'; to deal thoroughly with the question, 'What was a Christian? and how he was to use the liberty which Christ had won and given to him. He premises as an axiom that a Christian is a free lord over all things, and subject to nobody.
But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time. The scientific interpreter of nature will select, and unite, and teach continuously, and pointedly, in grand, ideal, representative fact, in 'prerogative instances, that which nature has but faintly and unconsciously impressed with her method; for he has a scientific organum, and what is more, a great deal more, a thousand times more, he has the scientific genius that invented it.
You would not have them abused; but you don't want to have anything to do with them yourselves. You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously. Isn't that it?" "Well, cousin," said Miss Ophelia, thoughtfully, "there may be some truth in this."
He will not, like an educational troglodyte at a recent Conference, refuse to describe anything as science which is not capable of mathematical treatment, nor allude compendiously to physiological study as "the cutting up of frogs."
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