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Caroline von Dacheröden. They had eight children, of whom five
(amongst them Gabriele von Humboldt) survived to adulthood.
Humboldt was a philosopher; he wrote The Limits of State Action
in 1791–1792 (though it was not published until 1850, after Humboldt's
death), one of the boldest defences of the liberties of the Enlightenment.
It influenced John Stuart Mill's essay On
Liberty through which von
Humboldt's ideas became known in the English-speaking world.
Humboldt outlined an early version of what Mill would later call the
"harm principle". His house in Rome became a cultural hub, run by
Caroline von Humboldt.
The section dealing with education was published in the
December 1792 issue of the Berlinische Monatsschrift under the title
"On public state education". With this publication, Humboldt
took part
in the philosophical debate regarding the direction of national education
that was in progress in Germany, as elsewhere, after the French
Revolution.
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