Legal Historian

Theodor Mommsen

Science

1817–1903

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."

Frederic William Maitland

History

1850–1906

"Those who took the road to democracy to be the road to freedom mistook temporary means for an ultimate end."

🇬🇧George Long (scholar)

Literature

1800–1879

"I have heard it maintained that it is always the teacher's fault if a boy does not learn, even a stupid and idle boy; but I leave the decision of this matter to the "communis sensus," the common intelligence of mankind."

🇬🇧Henry James Sumner Maine

Law

1822–1888

"Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin."