I know
personally seventeen of these thirty-four persons, and have known
them for years, some of them intimately. With six of them I have
labored as a colleague in university work. I have been introduced
into their homes, have broken bread at their tables and have
conversed with them long and often upon the problems of life and
culture. They are among the greatest thinkers, moralists and
philanthropists of the age. They are the salt of the earth! The
great theologian Harnack, the sound and accomplished political
scientist and economist von Schmoller, the distinguished
philologian von Wilamowitz, the well-known historian Lamprecht, the
profound statesman von Posadowsky, the brilliant diplomatist von
Buelow, the great financier von Gwinner, the great promoter of trade
and commerce Ballin, the great inventor Siemens, the brilliant
preacher of the Gospel Dryander, the indispensable Director in the
Ministry of Education Schmidt. Two of them are, in a sense, our own
countrywomen, the Baroness Speck von Sternburg and Frau
Staats-minister von Trott zu Solz. The latter is the granddaughter
of our own John Jay. I have known her, her mother and her
grandfather.
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