Private international law, and the retrospective operation of statutes; a treatise on the conflict of laws, and the limits of their operation in respect of place and time
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Subject: Information about a biography of Savigny missing
Subject: Information about a biography of Savigny missing
The book contains a 34 pages long “Memoir of Friedrich Carl von Savigny”, written presumably by the translator, “William Guthrie, Advocate”.
An extract explaining the purpose of the book:
But if the continuous development of our science through many generations offers us a rich possession, it is attended by great and peculiar dangers. In the mass of general ideas, rules, and technical terms which we have received from our predecessors, there will assuredly be included a large admixture of error, which operates on our minds with the traditional power of old prescription, and may easily obtain dominion over us. To avoid this danger, it is desirable that from time to time the whole body of what is handed down to us should be examined anew, questioned, traced to its origin. This is effected by placing ourselves in the position of those who have to communicate the doctrines so received to the ignorant, the sceptical, or the gainsaying. The proper spirit for such a work is one of intellectual freedom, of independence of all authority; but that this sense of freedom may not be perverted into arrogance ….
An extract explaining the purpose of the book:
But if the continuous development of our science through many generations offers us a rich possession, it is attended by great and peculiar dangers. In the mass of general ideas, rules, and technical terms which we have received from our predecessors, there will assuredly be included a large admixture of error, which operates on our minds with the traditional power of old prescription, and may easily obtain dominion over us. To avoid this danger, it is desirable that from time to time the whole body of what is handed down to us should be examined anew, questioned, traced to its origin. This is effected by placing ourselves in the position of those who have to communicate the doctrines so received to the ignorant, the sceptical, or the gainsaying. The proper spirit for such a work is one of intellectual freedom, of independence of all authority; but that this sense of freedom may not be perverted into arrogance ….
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