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Page 72 - Sed illa quidem duo genera testamentorum in desuetudinem abierunt ; hoc vero solum, quod per aes et libram fit, in usu retentum est. Sane nunc aliter ordinatur quam olim solebat. Namque olim familiae emptor, id est, qui a testatore familiam accipiebat mancipio, heredis locum optinebat, et ob id ei mandabat testator quid cuique post mortem suam dari vellet. Nunc vero alius heres testamento instituitur, a quo etiam legata relinquuntur, alius dicis gratia propter veteris juris imitationem familiae emptor...
Page 56 - The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. The actual constitution of a country has its existence only in the actual condition of force which exists in the country : hence political constitutions have value and permanence only when they accurately express those conditions of forces which exist in practice within a society.
Page 127 - ... principle of the whole historical period; to make its idea the leading truth of the whole of society, and so, in turn, to shape society into a reflection of its own character. The lofty historical honor of this destiny must lay hold upon all your thoughts. It is no longer becoming to you to indulge in the vices of the oppressed, or the idle distractions of the thoughtless, or even the harmless frivolity of the insignificant. You are the rock upon which the church of the present is to be built.
Page 17 - Oh yes," he had said at the time, " he is right. Why should I, of all people, become a martyr ? But if everyone said as much and withdrew with like cowardice, when would a warrior be forthcoming ? Why should I, of all people, become a martyr...
Page 39 - Here there is a contrast, a contradiction, between a man who was an intellectual aristocrat and a social democrat. "The phenomenon that here meets us is, in the world of thought, precisely that contrast which was outwardly apparent when Lassalle in his dandified clothes, his fine linen, and his patent-leather boots, spoke formally or informally among a number of grimy, horny-hands mechanics."68 Again, Heraclitus only provided antique representation for a position already taken.
Page 17 - ... said as much and withdrew with like cowardice, when would a warrior be forthcoming ? Why should I, of all people, become a martyr ? Why ? Because God has put a voice in my heart that calls me to battle ; because God has given me strength and fitted me for battle : I can feel it 1 Because I can fight and suffer for a noble cause.
Page 220 - He was one of the most intellectual and amiable men with whom I have ever had to do, ambitious in the grand style, and by no means a republican. His sympathies were unmistakably national and monarchical, and he aimed at the establishment of a German Empire. Here, dien, we found a point of contact.
Page 221 - ... political intercourse with Lassalle, he said in the Reichstag: "There was something about Lassalle which attracted me immensely as a private individual. He was one of the most talented and amiable persons with whom I have ever associated; he was ambitious in the grand style. . . . Our conversations lasted for hours, and I was always sorry when they came to an end. ... I fancy he had an agreeable impression that I was an intelligent and ready listener.
Page 149 - ... ravings it seems to me that there would be no better method and medicine to stay them than that kings and princes did so with force, armed themselves and attacked these pernicious people who do poison all the world, and once for all did make an end of their doings with weapons not with words. For even as we punish thieves with the sword, murderers with the rope, and heretics with fire, wherefore do we not lay hands on these pernicious teachers of damnation, on popes, on cardinals, bishops, and...
Page 18 - At this point we encounter the racial characteristic of Lassalle's disposition which was fundamentally distinctive in his temperament : it is apparent in the quality best expressed by the Jewish word " Chutspo," which connotes presence of mind, impudence, temerity, resolution, and effrontery ; it will be readily intelligible to anyone who regards it as an extreme which the growth of culture necessarily and naturally produced by reaction from the timorous and shrinking subservience imposed upon a...