A similar danger threatens every other country in which the clergy pursue a similar policy.

No thinking man, whatever may be his religious views, can fail to regret this.

A thoughtful, reverent, enlightened clergy is a great blessing to any country, and anything which undermines their legitimate work of leading men out of the worship of material things to the consideration of that which is highest is a vast misfortune.( 175) (175) For the foregoing statements regarding Germany the writer relies on his personal observation as a student at the University of Berlin in 1856, as a traveller at various periods afterward, and as Minister of the United States in 1879, 1880, and 1881.
IV.

FINAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE .-- THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE COMPLETE.
Before concluding, it may be instructive to note a few especially desperate attempts at truces or compromises, such as always appear when the victory of any science has become absolutely sure.

Typical among the earliest of these may be mentioned the effort of Carl von Raumer in 1819.