4. REVELATION AND ILLUSION. MORBID TRAINS OF THOUGHT. His conviction that he was the recipient of a special revelation; his apparent withdrawals of this claim. His so-called “temptations” viewed by him as confirming his mission; his persuasion that the Pope is Antichrist, that his opponents are all egged on by the devil and that no man on earth can compare with him. His tendency to self-contradiction; his changeableness, his feverish polemics _pages_ 141-171 5. LUTHER’S PSYCHOLOGY ACCORDING TO PHYSICIANS AND HISTORIANS. Whether Luther’s mind was abnormal, or whether all his symptoms are to be explained by uric acid, or by degeneracy _pages_ 172-186 CHAPTER XXXVII. LUTHER’S LATER EMBELLISHMENT OF HIS EARLY LIFE _pages_ 187-236 1. LUTHER’S LATER PICTURE OF HIS CONVENT-LIFE AND APOSTASY. The legend about his first appearance on the field of history. His supposed excessive holiness-by-works during his monastic days _pages_ 187-205 2. THE REALITY. LUTHER’S FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY. Inward peace and happiness in his monastic days; his vows and their breach; some peculiarities of his humility; his feverish addiction to his work; the facts around which his later legend grew _pages_ 205-229 3. THE LEGEND RECEIVES ITS LAST TOUCH; HOW IT WAS USED. Forged in the solitude of the Coburg. His characteristic passage from the “I” to the “we.” His monkish “experience” useful to him _pages_ 229-236 CHAPTER XXXVIII. END OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. THE CHURCH-UNSEEN AND THE VISIBLE CHURCH-BY-LAW _pages_ 237-340 1. FROM RELIGIOUS LICENCE TO RELIGIOUS CONSTRAINT. Freedom as Luther’s early watchword. Intolerance towards Catholics, in theory, and in practice. Sanguinary threats against all papists; the death-penalty pronounced against “sectarians” at home; his justification: blasphemy must be put down. The people driven to the new preaching; no freedom of conscience allowed: Luther’s intolerance imitated by his friends _pages_ 237-279 2. LUTHER AS JUDGE. The pigheadedness and arrogance of all the “sectarians.” None of them are sure of their cause; none of them can work miracles _pages_ 279-289 3. THE CHURCH-UNSEEN, ITS ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY. Luther’s invisible Church; her marks; only the predestined are members; his shifting theory _pages_ 290-308 4. THE CHURCH BECOMES VISIBLE. ITS ORGANISATION. The Church materialises in Articles and a Ministry set up by Wittenberg with the sovereign as “emergency-bishop.” The results of State-interference _pages_ 309-325 5. LUTHER’S TACTICS IN QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CHURCH.