Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them April 25, 1959 Issue

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, 1646-1716

[Mentioned in No and Yes, p. 22, and in Message for 1901, p. 24]

Leibnitz, whom Voltaire described as "perhaps the most erudite man in Europe," gave early promise of his superior intellectual powers. From his father, a professor of moral philosophy, he had already gained a love of history by the time he was six when his father passed on. At twelve the boy had mastered Latin sufficiently to compose Latin verse; Greek he learned largely through his own study. When he was fifteen he entered the University of Leipzig to study law and two years later received his bachelor's degree.

Three years later the university refused him his doctorate because of his youth. However, he went to Nuremberg and at the affiliated university of Altdorf not only won his degree but was offered the professorship of law at the university. This he declined.

An essay which he wrote at this time on a new, namely the historical, method of teaching law was dedicated to the Elector of Mainz, who hired him as a corporation lawyer and representative.

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