It has submitted to this alliance to keep the Plutonic power in check-built it up primarily for the sake of that soul in itself which cares only to make the highest better and the best higher; and now here is that very soul separated from it and working for the destruction of its indispensable ally, the Lawgiving State.
"The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring"
George Bernard Shaw
Rapid is the spread of theorems among the people; they work not only on the individual sciences, but on all the tendencies of the practical mind, on Lawgiving, statesmanship, household regulations, and family training; in the studio and workshop of the artist, and handicraftsman.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I."
Gustav Freytag