In however, Herr Hugo says of the classical jurists in the period of the j' highest development Ausbildzmg ofRomall law as a science 'that it has long since been noticed that the classical jurists had a philosophical education'; but 'few people are aware' (although the many editions of Herr Hugo's textbook have ensured that more people are now aware) 'that no category of writers is so eminently deserving as these same Roman jurists to be likened to the mathematicians in respect of logical deduction from first principles or to the new founder ofmetaphysics in respect of the strikingly distinctive way in which they develop their concepts the latter being confirmed by the renzarkable fact that there are nowhere so many trichotomies as in the classical jurists and in Kant'.