...harmonious whole that challenges our admiration. Humboldt says that "the aim of every man should be the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." As Jean Paul Richter puts it, "to make as much out of one's self as could be made out of the stuff."...

...from the outside. I think we may all agree with Humboldt that the aim of man should be to secure " the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" or, as we said in the first chapter, " to make the most of himself." This is the specific work of civilization,...

...HIGHEST ENDS OP HIS EXISTENCE. THE true end of Man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by...of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes...

...chapter, where the author, after a brief description of the true end of man — which he defines to be 'the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ' — points out the necessity of perfect freedom in order to the attainment of this end, and establishes...

...Wilhelm Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards...

...Wilhelm Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards...

...spontaneity of conduct — is so little valued ; that few even comprehend William Humboldfs dictum, " the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and...

...Wilhelm von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed...a complete and consistent whole;" that, therefore, the_object " towards which every human being must__ceas_elessly ^ direct his efforts^ and on which...

...Wilhelm von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and tran-' sient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and...

...navigation, and is it not in the same manner with reference to any other thing or any Government whatever I " The end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of Reason, is the highest and most harmonious development. . . . The individuality of power and development."—Baron...