distributed, some fifteen or twenty million copies of them, over a period of sixty years, but Rutherford’s in half that time were many times that amount. The prolific judge wrote over one hundred books and pamphlets, and his works as of 1941 had been translated into eighty languages. Thus, he was the Society’s second great champion who, regardless of his many failings, was truly an unusual man by any standard. Russell and Rutherford are the two key figures in the Society’s history, and without them it is