German science has held its place in the world.
Germany certainly took the lead in political sciences during the last century, and in all other domains of intellectual inquiry has won a prominent position through the universality of her philosophy and her thorough and unprejudiced research into the nature of things.
The achievements of Germany in the sphere of science and literature are attested by the fact that the annual export of German books to foreign countries is, according to trustworthy estimates, twice as large as that of France, England, and America combined.

It is only in the domain of the exact sciences that Germany has often been compelled to give precedence to foreign countries.

German art also has failed to win a leading position.

It shows, indeed, sound promise in many directions, and has produced much that is really great; but the chaos of our political conditions is, unfortunately, reflected in it.

The German Empire has politically been split up into numerous parties.