Chris Wright is an adjunct professor of U.S. history at the City University of New York, and is the author of Worker Cooperatives and Revolution and Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression. His website is www.wrightswriting.com and he is on Twitter @ChrisCWright1.
In Wilhelm von Humboldt’s book The Limits of State Action (1792), one of the most thoughtful expressions of classical liberalism, these passages appear: