98 THE PHYLETIC MUSEUM AT JENA 
The completion of our Phyletic Museum is no question 
of personal gratification, or of individual fancy ; but is the 
equipment of a place of public utility for intellectual cul- 
ture and for the advancement of higher scientific instruc- 
tion ; while the clear undistracted views of the world we 
live in, it will make apparent, is a service of no small im- 
portance. That our modern doctrine of evolution affords 
the safest groundwork on which to base our convictions 
daily becomes more widely recognized. But this youthful 
science has to labour under grave difficulties, and to wrestle 
hard for its victories. 
In conclusion we may therefore emphasize the fact 
that our foundation will subserve the cause of the highest 
and most far-reaching culture. Promoting, as our Institute 
will, the cultivation of the True and the Beautiful united in 
nature, at the same time it will inculcate the Good. These 
three—the loftiest of human ideals—are intimately con- 
nected. For genuine moral excellence is inseparably cor- 
related with the discernment of truth and perception of 
loveliness. We should therefore ever bear in mind that the 
words, fraught with meaning, of Goethe our greatest poet 
and thinker, are graven over the entrance door of the 
Phyletic Institute : 
‘Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, 
Hat auch Religion.”’ 
‘‘ He who possesses Wisdom and Art, 
Has Religion also.”’ 
Translated from the German by 
: H. B. WITTON, 
