The peculiarity of the Germano-Coleridgian school is, that they saw beyond the immediate controversy, to the fundamental principles involved in all such controversies. They were the first (except a solitary thinker here and there) who inquired with any comprehensiveness or depth, into the inductive laws of the existence and growth of human society.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The peculiarity of the Germano-Coleridgian school is, that they saw beyond the immediate controversy, to the fundamental principles involved in all such controversies. They were the first (except a solitary thinker here and there) who inquired with any comprehensiveness or depth, into the inductive laws of the existence and growth of human society." in the context of "John Stuart Mill, 'Coleridge', London and Westminster Review (March 1840), quoted in John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Vol. I (1859), p. 425" to mean that wisdom is timeless.