He was touched with profound melancholy and yet he had a wholesome, ready laugh.

His words are now brutal invectives and again blossom with the most exquisite flowers of the soul--poetry, music, idyllic humor, tenderness.

He was subtle and simple; superstitious and wise; limited in his cultural sympathies, but very great in what he achieved.
[1] Saxony had been divided in 1485 into two parts, the Electorate, including Wittenberg, Weimar and Eisenach, and the Duchy, including Leipzig and Dresden.

The former was called after its first ruler Ernestine, the latter Albertine.
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THE RELIGIOUS WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS PEACE [Sidenote: The Schmalkaldic War, 1546-7] Hardly had Luther been laid to rest when the first general religious war broke out in Germany.