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seal of sanctity it is offered. FOOTNOTES: [6-1] In his epochal essay "Die Aufgabe des Geschichtschreibers." _Gesammelte Werke_, Bd. I., s. 13. It was republished with a discriminating introduction by Professor Steinthal in _Die Sprachphilosophischen Werke Wilhelm von Humboldt's_ (Berlin, 1883). [6-2] "Der Zweck-Begriff bewirkt nur sich selbst, und ist am Ende was er im Anfange, in der Unspruenglichkeit, war." _Encyclopaedie der philosophischen Wissenschaften._ Theil,[TN-4] I., Sec. 204. [6-3] "Die Weltgeschichte ist der blosse Ausdruck einer vorbestimmten Entwicklung." (Quoted by Lord Acton.) [7-1] "Die Menschheit hat sich aus natuerlicher, tierischer Grundlage auf rein natuerliche mechanische Weise entwickelt." _Anthropolgische Beitraege_, s. 21. [8-1] _A Lecture on the Study of History_, p. 1 (London, 1895). [8-2] See his article "The Relation of Anthropology to the Study of History," in _The American Journal of Sociology_, July, 1895. [8-3] Ludwig Tobler, in his article "Zur Philosophie der Geschichte," in the _Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie_, Bd. XII., s. 195. [10-1] One of the most lucid of modern German philosophical writers says, "Without language, there could be no unity of mental life, no national life at all." Friedrich Paulsen, _Introduction to Philosophy_, p. 193. (English translation, New York, 1895.) I need scarcely recall to the student that this was the cardinal principle of the ethnological writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt, and that his most celebrated essay is entitled "Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts." The thought is well and tersely put by Prof. Frank Granger--"Language is the instinctive expression of national spirit." (_The Worship of the Romans_, p. 19, London, 1896.) [10-2] "Law, in its positive forms, may be viewed as an instrument used to produce a certain kind of character." Frank Granger, ubi supra, p. 19. [10-3] _Lectures on the Science of Religion_, p. 55. [12-1] How different from the position of Voltaire, who, expressing,[TN-5] the general sentiment of his times, wrote,--"The history of barbarous nations has no more interest than that of bears and wolves!" [13-1] _Grundriss der ethnologischen Jurisprudenz_, Bd. I., s. 5. (Leipzig, 1894.) [13-2] "Das Geschichte ist weder eine Offenbarung Gottes, noch ein Naturprocess, sondern eben Menschenwerk." Tobler in
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