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Germany and the Next War

CHAPTER IV
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95.] There are numerous other tasks to be fulfilled if we are to discharge our highest duty.

They form the necessary platform from which we can mount to the highest goal.

These duties lie in the domains of science and politics, and also in that borderland where science and politics touch, and where the latter is often directly conditioned by the results of scientific inquiry.
First and foremost it is German science which must regain its superiority in unwearying and brilliant research in order to vindicate our birthright.

On the one hand, we must extend the theory of the perceptive faculty; on the other, we must increase man's dominion over Nature by exploring her hidden secrets, and thus make human work more useful and remunerative.

We must endeavour to find scientific solutions of the great problems which deeply concern mankind.


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