Excerpt from The Freedom of Science in the Modern State: A Discourse Delivered at the Third General Meeting of the Fiftieth Conference of the German Association of Naturalists and Physicians at Munich, on the 22nd of September, 1877 On the other hand, it seemed to him high time to utter an energetic protest against the attempts that are made to proclaim the prob lems of research as actual facts, the opinions of scientists as established science, and thereby to set in a false light, before the eyes of the less informed masses, not merely the methods of science, but also its whole position in regard to the intellectual life of men and nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.