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utation. For promotion in a lecturer’s own university, a »call« to another university
should be a primary condition.304 The State should control internal administration
only so far as is necessary to prevent irregulär preferment of unsuitable people. On the
other hand, if the State itself were to appoint teachers who - however excellent as
teachers - were nevertheless unknown or had produced no recognized works, the char-
acter of the universities and Colleges305 would be destroyed - particularly if people were
favoured because of the acceptability of their political and general views to the Gov-
ernment in power.
By a limitless interweaving of intellectual powers the life of the university should
lead to unrestricted discussion, but it should also make it possible for a solitary inves-
tigator to work deeper into his subject with a long-term plan of research. Students
should take a genuine part in both if they would become scholars. In this way the em-
ulation of minds creates the intellectual aristocracy. Administrative measures may
clear the way for it, but the more administration Orders and plots and plans the more
is progressively destroyed.
The disappearance of the intellectual aristocracy would mean that3°6 the chance of
education’s achieving again a new unity of all branches of knowledge through the Cre-
ative work of the best minds would at once be lost.