Unrestrained freedom of scientific teaching is... not only an inalienable right of the individual, but, what is more to the point, it is, primarily and most particularly, a necessity of life to the community; it involves the life of the State itself.

Translated by Thorstein B. Veblan, In Kuno Francke and Isidore Singer, The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated Into English, 1914