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Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects

Isaiah Berlin

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The German School of Historical Jurisprudence

Millar says a political state, death cannot represent life, nor can stagnation. That is the social contract the liberal state, is what he means in particular. Movement, science and utilitarianism do not convey the state - that conveys a mere factory or insurance company. Millar: State as semi spiritual organization symbolic of spirit powers of divine mystery. This is very nearly what the state among the romantics, at least the extremer romantics becomes it enters the sphere of law.

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