13, 1806.)] [Footnote 6215: Here Taine describes what today is often named as being the "state of the art." (SR.)] [Footnote 6216: Cuvier, "Rapport sur l'instruction publique dans les nouveaux departements de la basse Allemagne, fait en execution du decret du 13 novembre 1810," pp.

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"The principle and aim of each university is to have courses of lectures on every branch of human knowledge if there are any pupils who desire this...

No professor can hinder his colleague from treating the same subjects as himself; most of their increase depends on the remuneration of the pupils which excites the greatest emulation in their work."-- The university, generally, is in some small town; the student has no society but that of his comrades and his professors; again, the university has jurisdiction over him and itself exercises its rights of oversight and police.

"Living in their families, with no public amusements, with no distractions, the middle-class Germans, especially in North Germany, regard reading, study and meditation as their chief pleasures and main necessity; they study to learn rather than to prepare themselves for a lucrative profession.....The theologian scrutinizes even to their roots the truth of morality and of natural theology.