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Germany has advanced with bolder step : she has had 

 the full confidence, which has never been shaken, that 

 truth fully known brings with it its own remedy for 

 the danger and disadvantage that may here and there 

 attend a limited recognition of what is true. A labour- 

 loving, frugal, and moral people may exercise such bold- 

 ness, may stand face to face with truth ; it has nothing 

 to fear though hasty or partial theories be advocated, 

 even if they should appear to trench upon the founda- 

 tions of morality and society. 



We have met here on the southern frontier of our 

 country. In science, however, we recognise no political 

 boundaries, for our country reaches as far as the German 

 tongue is heard, wherever German industry and German 

 intrepidity in striving after truth find favour. And 

 that it finds favour here is shown by our hospitable 

 reception, and the inspiriting words with which we have 

 been greeted. A new medical faculty has been established 

 here. We will wish it in its career rapid progress in the 

 cardinal virtues of German science, for then it will not 

 only find remedies for bodily suffering, but become an- 

 active centre to strengthen intellectual independence, 

 steadfastness to conviction and love of truth, and at the 

 same time be the means of deepening the sense of unity 

 throughout our country. 



