The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber is a biographical book about the life and work of Francis Lieber, written by Lieber himself. Francis Lieber was a German-American philosopher, jurist, and political scientist who played a significant role in shaping American political thought during the mid-19th century. The book provides a detailed account of Lieber's life, from his early years in Germany to his emigration to the United States, and his subsequent career as a professor of political science at South Carolina College and Columbia University.The book is divided into three parts, each of which covers a different period in Lieber's life. The first part focuses on Lieber's early years in Germany, his education, and his involvement in the German revolution of 1848. The second part covers his emigration to the United States, his work as a professor of political science, and his contributions to American political thought. The third and final part of the book consists of Lieber's correspondence with various individuals, including his family members, colleagues, and friends.Throughout the book, Lieber provides insights into his own philosophy and political views, as well as the events and people that shaped his life. He also reflects on the challenges he faced as an immigrant in America, and the role that he played in shaping American political thought during a critical period in the country's history.Overall, The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of one of America's most influential political thinkers, and is a must-read for anyone interested in American political history and philosophy.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...none that offers difficulties so great, as that of laughing and the ridiculous. You will find that we feel tempted to smile, sometimes, even when our soul is filled with horror. There is always something risible in the Blue Beards, and, strange to say, the highest degree of horror frequently causes physical convulsive laughter.' We ought, then, to take care not to be betrayed into an act so little understood, when done at the cost of another, who may feel pained or humbled by our inadvertence. We may further say that everything novel, which does not at once strike us as grand, sublime, or awful, inclines us first of all to smile. The advanced state of my address prevents me from giving you instances. You can easily, however, provide them for yourselves. But, if the fact is as I have stated, you will readily see that the smiling, caused by everything novel,betrays as often our own ignorance as a fair cause of risibility. You ought, moreover, to remember that every human action perceptible by the senses, and which strikes us at all, causes us to laugh, if we are unacquainted with its antecedents, or if we see it out of connection, unless an expe 1 We are here reminded even of the sardonic smile. Laughter, so distinguishing a feature of man, and so closely interwoven with literature, with civilization, and with ethnography, for some races are more cachinnatory than others--the negroes and Indians occupying apparently the two ends of the scale--laughter, I say, seems nevertheless unexplained, even more so than disgust, that "mystic union between imagination and the stomach." I know of no profound physiology of laughter, not even of a sound Chapter on this remarkable subject. Von. I.--18 rienced mind and vivid imagination...