The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 19 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 19 The famous lines in the first part of Goethe´s Faust: Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, Von demist leider nie die Frage, in which Mephistopheles sums up his vitriolic invectives against the study of jurisprudence in general and of positive law in particular, have always been interpreted as a reference to the so-called natural law. Since the entire passage in which these lines occur is missing in the Urfaust but appears first in the Fragment of 1790, it might be inferred that the lines in question originated during the time of the French Revolution when declamations about human rights and natural law were in vogue. We must remember, however, that discussions of the nature, the origin and the merits of the jus naturale antedate both the American and the French Revolution and that Goethe, as a student or law, doubtless was familiar with them. It is, therefore, not improbable that the unusual phrase "mit uns geboren" by which Goethe characterizes the natural law as opposed to statute or positive law and which, as we shall see later, appears in the adjective form mitgeboren in the poet´s early writings, was either coined by him or adopted from current legal terminology. In either case, the very use of the term discloses the poet as a champion of the cause which set the later revolutionary events into motion, and as fully conscious of the significance of the idea of natural law as one of the greatest moving powers of modern history. It is a fact not infrequently overlooked, that the conception of the lex naturae which plays so important a role in the political, social and ethical development of modern times, is a product of Stoicism and, to a certain extent, of Epicureanism, the two philosophies of the senile decline of antiquity which mark the birth of individualism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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