THE LEADER It is superfluous in these days to point out that no great historical movement is caused by the personality, however potent, of a single individual.

The men who take the helm at crises are those who but express in themselves what the masses of their followers feel.

The need of leadership is so urgent that if there is no really great man at hand, the people will invent one, endowing the best of the small men with the prestige of power, and embodying in his person the cause for which they strive.

But a really strong personality to some extent guides the course of events by which he is carried along.

Such a man was Luther.