LITTLE hall, and speaks or reads to fifty or sixty students, but 

 JOURNEYS the printed word goes to millions, so his thoughts here 



expressed in Jena, are shots heard 'round the 'world. 

 American pedagogic institutions are mendicant they 

 depend upon private charity and are endowed by pious 

 pirates and beneficent buccaneers. The individuals 

 who made these institutions possible very naturally 

 have a controlling voice in their management. The col- 

 leges in America that are not supported by direct 

 mendicancy, depend upon the dole of the legislator, & 

 woe betide the pedagogic principal who offends the 

 orthodox vote. His supplies are cut short, and the 

 purse strings pucker until he moderates his voice to a 

 monotone and dilutes his views to a dull neutral tint. 

 QI do not know a University in the United States that 

 would not place Ernst Hseckel on half rations, and 

 make him fight for his life, or else he would be dis- 

 charged and be reduced to the sad necessity of tilting 

 windmills in popular lecture courses for the edification 

 of agrarians. 



The German government seeks to make men free. 

 It even gives them the privilege of being absurd ; for 

 pioneers sometimes take the wrong track. We do not 

 scout Columbus because his domestic voyages were 

 failures ; not even because he sought one thing and 

 found another, and died without knowing the dif- 

 ference. 



Hseckel's wants are all supplied; what he needs in the 

 way of apparatus or material, is his for the asking ; he 

 travels at will the round world over ; visions of old 

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