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Ferdinand Lassalle was born in the year 1825 at Breslau in Silesia, where his father carried on the business of a merchant, and intended that his son should follow the same occupation. But young Lassalle having early given proof of unusual ability, and a *certain passionate energy of character preferred a more ambitious career, and having passed With distinction through the Universities of Breslau and Berlin, devoted himself to the task of raising the condition of the people. Young, handsome, highly gifted, and thoroughly trained in the intellectual school of the highest German thought, he found a ready entrance to the best society of Berlin, and in Mendelsohn's house in particular gained the friendship of Humboldt and other eminent men. The poet Heine thus writes of him to Varnhagen von Euse My friend Lassalle, who is the bearer of this letter, is a young man of extraordinary ability. To the most thorough scholarship, the Widest knowledge, the greatest penetration I have ever met with, and the greatest power of expression, he unites an energy of will, and a prudence in action, which fairly astonish me. He hints at one defect, however, with characteristic irony He is thoroughly stamped with the impress of these later times, Which ignore the selfdenial and modesty about Which we of the older generation used, with more or less hypocrisy, perpetually to prate.
In 1848 Lassalle took a leading part in organizing armed resistance to the reactionary Government, and when brought to trial, he undertook his own defence, and admitting the fact, maintained that he had done no more than his duty.
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Lassalle was a German Socialist.
Edward Peters, author of the highly acclaimed "Torture", is Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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