LITTLE Germany honors her scholars ; and one of the strongest 

 JOURNEYS instincts of her national life, is her search for genius. 

 Q Initiative is originality in motion. 

 Originality is too rare to flout and scout. Not all orig- 

 inality is good, but all good things, so far as humanity 

 is concerned, were once original. That is to say, they 

 were the work of Genius. 



Germany's sympathy for the best in thought, has oc- 

 casionally been broken in upon by pigmy rulers, who 

 for the moment, had a giant's power, so it seems 

 hardly possible that a government which encouraged 

 Goethe should have banished Wagner. 

 The greatness of Kant was largely owing to the fact 

 that he was set apart by Frederick and made free to 

 do his work; and at this time, not another monarchy 

 in the world would have had the insight to keep its 

 coarse hands off from this little man with the big 

 head and brain of a prophet. 



And as Kant was the greatest and most original 

 thinker of his time, so today does a German Univer- 

 sity house the world's greatest living scientist. 

 Ernst Haeckel has been Professor of Natural History 

 of Jena for forty-two years. All the efforts of various 

 other Universities to lure him away, have failed. He 

 even declined to listen to the siren song of Major Pond, 

 and at big baits dangled on long poles from Cook 

 County, Illinois, he only smiled. 



"I have everything I want, everything I can use is 

 right here; why should I think of uprooting my life?" 

 he asked. 

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