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accomplished great things here, but he has not the lowest 

 claim to any respect or recognition if he have not obeyed 

 the higher claims of morally religious culture. Whatever 

 he has done as Artist, as Scholar, I take it and apply to 

 my own purposes, but without thanks, as I place the gold- 

 piece I find, in my pocket, while I throw away with disgust 

 the muddy paper in which it was wrapped. What is 

 gained in that field, concludes with the individual, with his 

 development always begins anew, and gives him, and only 

 him, a value. What is gradually obtained by toil and 

 labour here, belongs not to the individual, but to mankind, 

 and enters upon time there where the other ceases. The 

 performance of the individual has indeed value for hu- 

 manity, but it bestows no value on the individual. 



On the other hand, I cannot withhold my respect, my 

 recognition from a noble, spiritual being, who has proved his 

 right to this recognition by morally religious life, though 

 he have attained to never so little in any other branch of 

 human culture. The last claim is, indeed, not necessary 

 and equal upon all men, but subject to manifold modifica- 

 tions according to the countless gradations of external 

 conditions, of restraints and facilities. It is not universally 

 equal and necessary, for the reason that here, in direct 

 opposition to the perception of the object, the proposition 

 of the question to be solved is by far the most important, 

 and, of course, by him alone is a correct answer to be 

 expected who correctly puts the question. This holds 

 good, especially, in all studies of Natural Science; and it 

 would be but a slight exaggeration to say : ask but correctly, 

 and Natural Science cannot answer falsely. Its imperfec- 

 tion, its relatively circumscribed position, lie solely in this, 

 that it is so difficult to state the question correctly. Series 

 of facts accumulate, evidently allied in their nature ; if the 



