“Every germinating truth is revolutionary against prevailing errors; every germinating virtue, revolutionary against prevailing vices opposed to it. And, therefore, there is always an outcry at the rising up of new youthful truths and virtues.”
Source: Contributions to the history and improvement of the german universities - A history of pedagogy; volume 4 (1855), p. 99
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