Excerpt from The Philosophy of Right, Vol. 1 of 2: With Special Reference to the Principles and Development of Law

Italy has gain become the living and fruitful home of the Science of Law. The ancient spirit of the "People of Right" was never dead, however it may have seemed to slumber; and it is now breathing again with all the freshness and fulness of the new time. The Nineteenth Century has not had anything to show more fair than the achievement of Italian independence and the organisation in the new national unity of Italian liberty. For this has been wholly the work of the Spirit of Right in its struggle with political and ecclesiastical despotism, and it has been realised by the strength of essential justice, even in the face of external defeat and disaster. That spirit, thus quickened and deepened in itself, is now flowing in a freer and richer stream through the new national channels, and is beginning to mingle once more with the progressive destinies of the emancipated peoples. Modern Italy has thus entered anew upon her special birthright, and is vindicating her claim to be not only the inheritor, but the continuator, of the jural spirit of Ancient Rome.

The true glory of Ancient Rome undoubtedly lay in the power of her Legislation. As Rudolph Von Ihering has well observed, Rome has thrice dictated laws to the world and given unity to the peoples. This was seen the first time in the Ancient Roman Empire; the second time in the Medieval Roman Church; and the third time in the reception by the new European Nations of the old Roman Law.

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