ABSTRACT
WHEN in the latter half of the last century B.C., and in the first Century A.D., the Romans came into direct or indirect contact with the Teutonic tribes, they discovered in the territory beyond the Rhine social conditions which were partly strange to them and partly reminded them of the natural law ideal: it seemed that they had found there some vestiges of the original natural law. This was especially the case with the Roman historian Tacitus, but Julius Cæsar also was by no means without knowledge of natural law, although he was preoccupied with the problems of war and statesmanship.
