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Another school has come into existence, spread at this time more widely than the other, and considering itself the philosophical school by way of excellence. I mean those historians who seek the highest work of history in finding out a predetermined type of social development in each state and nation, and in every race, reducing men to instinctive and involuntary be ings, and society to nothing better than a bee-hive. " 1 But Lieber rose above these opposing forces. He had an ideal nature, but ...his contact with the stern realities of life had toned him down. While many political philosophers had merely formed ideals, he had learned by cold experience. His enthusiasm had brought him into conflict with the Prussian authorities, while the Waterloo campaign, the prison life, the flight in exile, his disappointment in Greece, his farewell to the Old World and his life in the New all had made him conscious of the power of facts. While his 1 " Miscellaneous Writings, 1 vol. I, p. 340. 120 FRANCIS LIEBER philosophy belonged to the system of Naturrechtslehre, so popular in Europe at the time, he escaped its many errors on account of his knowledge of history and of practical life.
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