ON THE 



RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE 1 

 TO GENERAL SCIENCE, 



Academical Discourse delivered at Heidelberg, November 22, 1862, 

 Br DB. H. HELMHOLTZ, SOJIETIMK PKOBECTOB. 



TO-DAY we are met, according to annual custom, in grateful 

 commemoration of an enlightened sovereign of this kingdom, 

 Charles Frederick, who, in an a-ge when the ancient fabric of 

 European society seemed tottering to its fall, strove, with lofty 

 purpose and untiring zeal, to promote the welfare of his sub- 

 jects, and, above all, their moral and intellectual development. 

 Rightly did he judge that by no means could he more effectually 

 realise this beneficent intention than by the revival and the 

 encouragement of this University. Speaking, as I do, on such 

 an occasion, at once in the name and in the presence of the 

 whole University, I have thought it well to try and take, as far 



1 The German word Naturwissensctiaft has no exact equivalent in modern 

 English, including, as it does, both the Physical and the Natural Sciences. 

 Curiously enough, in the original charter of the Royal Society, the phrase 

 Natural Knowledge covers the same ground, but is there used in opposition 

 to supernatural kn OTvleclge. (Note in Buckle's Civilisation, vol. ii. p. 34] .) 

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