Giuseppe Garibaldi. Ferdinand Lassalle. Popular Leaders and Thinkers.

Giuseppe Garibaldi. All of Garibaldi's activity, his entire life is so closely connected with the fate of his homeland, that his biographer must return to the history of Italy at every step. There are people who, having become passionate about some single idea in their youth, become so close to it that they dedicate all their energies throughout their subsequent lives to serving this particular idea that is especially dear to them. Garibaldi was one of these exceptional natures. To know and understand Garibaldi, one can only do so by knowing and understanding Italy and the hopes that inspired the best part of Italian society in the early 19th century. Ferdinand Lassalle. Germany has gifted a multitude of great figures in the fields of intellectual and public life. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Goethe, Schiller, Feuerbach, Heine, Berne, Marx - a brief list of the sons of the "nation of thinkers." Among them are geniuses who perhaps far surpass Lassalle in intellectual capabilities, but there is not a single one among them who has achieved so much in such a short period of time, and gained such strong influence on the public life and public thought of his country.