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'free science and free teaching' then are our 

 universities no better than gaols, and our colleges 

 become cloistral schools ; or else the modern 

 rational State proves victorious then, in the 

 twentieth century, human culture, freedom, and 

 prosperity will continue their progressive develop- 

 ment until they far surpass even the height of the 

 nineteenth century. 



" In order to compass these high aims, it is of 

 the first importance that modern science not only 

 shatter the false structures of superstition and 

 sweep their ruins from the path, but that it also 

 erect a new abode for human emotion on the 

 ground it has cleared a palace of reason/ in 

 which, under the influence of our new monistic 

 views, we do reverence to the real trinity of the 

 nineteenth century the trinity of c the true, the 

 good, and the beautiful ' " (p. 1 1 9). 



These are the bases of religion, adopted 

 from Goethe, which in Haeckers view 

 should entirely replace what he calls the 

 Trinity of Kant, viz., God, Freedom, and 

 Immortality three ideas which he regards 

 as mere superstition or as so enveloped in 

 superstition as to be worthless. 



Occasionally, however, he attacks not solely 

 ecclesiastical Christianity in which enter- 

 prise he is entirely within his rights, but 



