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succeeded in securing wonderful results bearing on the factors which favour
the growth of epithelium at the expense of that of connective tissue,
results which may well be of decisive importance for the study of cancer. He
also had the pleasure of inspiring his own son to become his intelligent and
independent fellow-worker, and of exciting the warm interest and
co-operation of Sauerbruch just in the last years of his life, so that he
was able to die with the consoling thought that his life's work would not
perish, but would be vigorously continued on the lines he had laid down.

I for my part am grateful to fate for having given me this man, with
his inexhaustible goodness and high creative gifts, for a friend.

Congratulations to Dr. Solf

I am delighted to be able to offer you, Dr. Solf, the heartiest
congratulations, the congratulations of Lessing College, of which you have
become an indispensable pillar, and the congratulations of all who are
convinced of the need for close contact between science and art and the
public which is hungry for spiritual nourishment.

You have not hesitated to apply your energies to a field where there
are no laurels to be won, but quiet, loyal work to be done in the interests
of the general standard of intellectual and spiritual life, which is in
peculiar danger to-day owing to a variety of circumstances. Exaggerated
respect for athletics, an excess of coarse impressions which the
complications of life through the technical discoveries of recent years has
brought with it, the increased severity of the struggle for existence due to
the economic crisis, the brutalization of political life-all these factors
are hostile to the ripening of the character and the desire for real
culture, and stamp our age as barbarous, materialistic, and superficial.
Specialization in every sphere of intellectual work is producing an
everwidening gulf between the intellectual worker and the non-specialist,
which makes it more difficult for the life of the nation to be fertilized
and enriched by the achievements of art and science.

But contact between the intellectual and the masses must not be lost.
It is necessary for the elevation of society and no less so for renewing the
strength of the intellectual worker; for the flower of science does not grow
in the desert. For this reason you, Herr Solf, have devoted a portion of
your energies to Lessing College, and we are grateful to you for doing so.
And we wish you further success and happiness in your work for this noble
cause.

Of Wealth

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity
forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The
example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine
ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts
its owners irresistibly to abuse it.