"Law grows with the growth, and strengthens with the strength of the people, and finally dies away as…

Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the founder of the Historical School of Jurisprudence, made this famous statement in his 1814 pamphlet "On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence" ("Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft"), expressing his doctrine of Volksgeist—that law is organically bound to the common consciousness of a people, grows with its growth, strengthens with its strength, and dies away when the nation loses its nationality.