ABSTRACT
If one were to take the following paragraph out of context, one might place it almost anywhere in Europe in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century:
An appeal to the intelligentsia of the world. All science is inextricably linked with the mental character of the nation whence it arises. The stipulation for the successful scientific work is, therefore, an unlimited scope of mental development and the cultural freedom of the nations. Only from the cooperation of the scientific culture – such as is born from and peculiar to each individual nation, there will spring the nation-uniting power of science. Unlimited mental development and cultural freedom of the nations can only thrive on the basis of equal rights, equal honour, equal political freedom, that is to say in an atmosphere of genuine, universal peace.
