12 P)-ussia and the German System of Education. 



no one can form a correct idea of the nation's higher and 

 deeper lite without a knowledge oi" its universities. 



Each nation has its peculiar mission* and excellency. 

 Ancient Israel was elected to prepare the true religion 



for the world ; Greece to develop the principles of science 

 and arl ; Rome to actualize the idea of law and civil 

 government. So in our times, the chief significance of 

 Germany lies neither in politics nor in war nor in commerce, 

 but in science and literature. The German universities 

 exert also a powerful influence upon other countries. 



Situated in the heart of Europe and visited by strangers 

 from all quarters of the globe, they are the strongholds of 

 general learning and literature and of the highest culture 

 of Europe and America. 



Twenty six Universities exist in the entire German 

 confederation. Of these, six belong to the kingdom of 

 Prussia (at Berlin, Halle, Bonn, Breslaw, Konigsberg, 

 Greisswalde, to which may be added the Roman Catholic 

 High School of Munster ) ; six to the Empire of Austria 

 (Vienna, Prague, Olmutz, Gratz, Salzburg, Innsbruck) ; 

 three to the kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Erlangen, 

 Wurzburg) ; two to the grand Duchy of Baden (Heidelberg 

 and Freiburg); one to the kingdom of Wurtemherg 

 (Tubingen); one to the kingdom of Saxony (Leipsic). 



Eight are Roman Catholic, thirteen Protestant, live of 

 both creeds. 



These institutions are maintained by princely or by 

 private donations, by tithes and by annual appropriations 

 of the government. The popes frequently transferred to 

 them the proceeds of a part of the church property. At 

 the Reformation, the wealth of the secularized abbeys and 

 since 1773, that of the order of Jesuits have been largely 

 devoted to them. They are also generally exempt from 

 taxation and enjoy certain temporal privileges. Tuition 

 forms the least source of income. The students pay besides 



