"He does not exalt the individual at the expense of the nation, like the disciples of Rousseau; nor the nation at the expense of the individual, as was the tendency of Hegel; nor humanity at the expense of both, as was the incurable aberration of Comte. Recognising that each of these has its peculiar function, he recognises no less fully that no one of them can put forth its energies without the others; that each of them is conditioned absolutely by the others; and that only to the most limited extent is it possible to mark off the sphere in which each operates even in partial independence of the others."
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Charles Edwyn Vaughan, Studies in the History of Political Philosophy Before and After Rousseau, Volume II: From Burke to Mazzini, ed. A. G. Little (1939), p. 305
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Giuseppe Mazzini
1805 – 1872
italienischer Jurist, Politiker und Freiheitskämpfer
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