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...seldom even show himself brave, resolute, and truthful, without showing a strong dash of coarseness and commonness all the while; the right definition of Luther, as of our own Bunyan, is that he is a Philistine of genius. So Luther's sincere idiomatic German,- such language as this: "Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante...
...English literature, in 1855, at the University of Michigan was one of the first academic recognition's of history in this country. At this time Harvard stood alone in the honor of a distinctly endowed historical professorship. Yale bad no historical professorship until 1865. Columbia College called Dr. Francis Lieber to its new professorship of Historical and Political Science in 1857, the year after Dr. Haven's first retirement from academic life. During the first of his two years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Haven appears to have taught history to scientific students throughout their freshman course, devoting...
...call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges...
...historical students have a library called the Bluntschli Library, entirely separate from the main library. It numbers ten thousand bound volumes and there are perhaps as many pamphlets more. A specially noteworthy feature is what is called the Bluntschli-Lieber collection, set off by itself in a separate case. It is justly regarded as the most important possession of the library. It was obtained in this way. In 1882, the German citizens of Baltimore purchased the private library of Bluntschli, including his student notebooks of the lectures of Savigny and Niebuhr, and generously presented it to the Historical Library...
...Plato and Aristotle among the Greeks, of Cicero's "Republic," of the early doctrine of the Church as expounded by St. Augustine and by Thomas Aquinas, of Dante and Machiavelli, of Grotius, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Spinoza, Locke and Hobbs, and the more modern theories of such writers as Hegel, Lieber, Humboldt, Bluntschli, Waitz, Spencer, Bagehot and Mulford, with perhaps an exposition of the views of the Fathers of the American Revolution-particularly Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison...