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had religion — it may shock some of you to 

 hear ! I mean the people, not the writers or 

 the thinkers, but the people for whom Lu- 

 ther lived andHuss died. Of the two devo- 

 tional ceremonies which stand supreme in 

 my memory, one was a service in the Dom, 

 Berlin, in which ' ' not the great nor well be- 

 spoke, but the mere uncounted folk" sang 

 Luther's great hymn "Eir? feste Burg ist 

 unser Gott." z With the Humanities Ger- 

 many never broke, and the proportion of 

 students in her schools and universities who 

 studied Greek and Latin has been higher 

 than in any other country. You know bet- 

 ter than I the innumerable classical stud- 

 ies of her scholars. In classical learning 

 relating to science and medicine she simply 

 had the field; for one scholar' in other coun- 

 tries she had a dozen, and the monopoly of 

 journals relating to the history of these sub- 



1 And the other, how different ! The crowded Blue Mosque of 

 Cairo, and the crowded streets with the thousands of kneeling Mos- 

 lems awaiting the cry of the muezzin from the tower. 



