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THE general character of the changes in the German universities was expounded by Herr Bust, Reichsminister for Education, at the recent celebration of the ‘jubilee’ of the University of Heidelberg. His address is translated in the November issue of the Universities Review. Herr Rust believes the New Germany to be the true heir of Sparta and suggests that these changes are as though Sparta had triumphed over Athens. Had that calamity befallen the world, all that we could have inherited from Greece would have been ‘discipline’, for Sparta had no other gifts to bestow. But the new “Weltanschauung”, Herr Rust assures us, “is the life-blood of a new science... National Socialism has provided science with new principles from which she can derive the strength of self-confidence.... The old idea of science based on the belief in the supremacy of the intellect is finished.”
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University of Heidelberg and New Conceptions of Science: From a Correspondent. Nature 139, 98–100 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139098a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139098a0