348 AIM AND PROGEESS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



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 dis- 

 advantage that may here and there attend a limited recognition 

 of what is true. A labour-loving, frugal, and moral people 

 may exercise such boldness, may stand face to face with truth ; 

 it has nothing to fear though hasty or partial theoi-ies be advo- 

 cated, even if they should appear to trench upon the foundations 

 of morality and society. 



We have met here on the southern frontier of our country. 

 In science, however, we recognise no political boxmdaries, 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. 



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