A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons And Movements in Continental Legal History
The book A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons And Movements in Continental Legal History was written by author Wigmore, John Henry, 1863-1943. Ed Here you can read free online of A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons And Movements in Continental Legal History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons And Movements in Continental Legal History a good or bad book?
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— Tbansl.] 412 Chap. Ill] NATURAL LAW, EATIONALISM, NATIONALISM [§ 40 placed it upon a purely worldly basis of utilitarianism. And this contribution was . . . especially significant and fruitful be- cause, in last analysis, it was the great idea of a natural com- munity of law embracing all men and peoples as such, and be- cause it made its appearance precisely at the moment when the medieval community of peoples, based upon community of reUgion, had collapsed. Its acceptance in Germany came la...te and not without resistance. A barbarous war raged in the land and made a dreary waste; in philosophy and theology the Aristotelian scholasticism held sway; in jurisprudence, a Carpzov, — all of these being so many powers hostile to natural law, because an instrument of humanitarianism and enlightenment. To them even the fundamental tenet of natural law was already impious. Before the middle of the century nobody in Germany seems to have paid any attention whatever to Grotius. [In the second half of the century] his acceptance as a figure of the first rank in political and legal science became assured.
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