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A CORRESPONDENT has pointed out that the speech at the Heidelberg jubilee by Reichsminister Rust, which was referred to in NATURE of January 16, p. 98, stands in poor contrast to an equally proud speech of Helmholtz delivered in 1869 (Les Mondes, 21, 552). Speaking at Innsbruck at a gathering of German scientific workers and medical men, he claimed that Germany held the first place in the development of natural sciences because the German savants, unlike their French and English colleagues, could proclaim truth as they found it, without regard to the opinion of the world, to social and religious prejudices. Our correspondent remarks that there was more of Athens than of Sparta in such men.
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Germany and Science: Yesterday and To-day. Nature 139, 666 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139666c0
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