ABSTRACT
Everyone knows that in Germany the career of a young man who devotes himself to science as a career begins as a lecturer. Arrangements are fundamentally different in America. It is precisely when the lecturer is young that he is completely overburdened; the full professor might give a three-hour lecture on Goethe and that would be all, whereas the young assistant would be happy if, with twelve hours’ teaching a week, he was directed to lecture on poets of the rank of, say, Uhland as well as drilling German language into his students. Moreover, the relationship of scientific work to these presuppositions varies greatly according to their structure. The people to whom that was said asked and waited for far more than two millennia, and the people know their shattering fate. But that is plain and simple, if everybody finds and obeys the demon which holds the threads of his life.
