100 GERMAN SCIENCE 
Mathematics, and natural sciences give to the child a one-sided- 
ness, to be counteracted fully by linguistic study, first in its form 
and later by its content in historical and other kinds of 
knowledge.’ 
But the strife of the pedants against science is that of 
the tallow-chandler against the gaslight, of the innkeeper” 
against the express post, of the courier against canals and 
‘tailways. ‘These dull-witted people, strangers to all true 
humanity, will not have it that the State shall provide 
means for the citizen and countryman to clothe themselves 
better or to bear with ease and affection burdens of the 
State and pay their dues. They will not have it that 
the doctor shall visit our universities, that he shall derive 
true value from our lectures, which remain to him, exclusively 
trained in the grammar schools, wholly unintelligible. They 
will not have it that industry and commerce shall develop 
and enrich the State. They fight against materialism, 
against the utilitarianism of the time, against phantoms of 
their own imagination.’ And yet it is they on whom the 
natural sciences have conferred the greatest boon. The 
benignant influence of science during fifty years has enabled 
the salaries of these people to be raised threefold without 
causing oppression, poverty, or discontent among other castes, 
whom they do not regard as human beings because they 
understand no Greek nor the variants of the Latin authors. 
To these same creatures of darkness are we indebted for 
the fact that our theologians only become acquainted with 
the goodness and infinite wisdom of the Creator out of 
books, that our lawyers remain detached from the actual 
life in a State, from its organic development and completion, 
that their vision is not sharpened, their mind not awakened 
to discern what is truly useful or truly harmful. To them 
we owe it that those curious for knowledge in the country, 
desiring to understand and to be instructed about natural 
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