Word: searcher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Since in its entirety truth is personal, the quest for character is the search for truth. He who holds himself above all baseness and seeks for all that is good, is a searcher for truth. The ultimate truth in which the endeavor of the world finds its fullest and best expression is the truth of character...
...Methods." Prof. Francke calls attention to the German Private docent wesen, an institution which is perhaps the most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only self-imposed obligations. He receives no remuneration, and many of his duties are far from enviable; yet the proportion of private docenten to the total number...