The history of law and legal tradition played its leading role. It was, therefore, a strong reaction of nationalism, of concrete, the particular, popular culture, of social, if you will, against the rational, abstract, ideal, generic, universal academic and . Only one thing agreed the Historical School and the Natural Law: Both were rooted metaphysical. This because of their belief in principles governing immutable and eternal reality. That, given their belief that the law is "shaped by forces silent, secret, inscrutable that can only be grasped by intuitive processes and not by reason." In Germany, the reaction was stronger than elsewhere and was expressed not only in the field of law and philosophy but in the arts, poetry, literature, etc., with a force romantic, anti-rationalist and irrational, are profoundly nationalist. Proceeds from all this was the historical school, with its top three speakers in Germany, Gustav Hugo, Savigny FEDERICO CARLOS, JORGE Puchta and Rudolf von Ihering, its representative par excellence in England, Edmund Burke, and its exponent, in France, more although not very convinced notorious LERMINIER EUGENE. Robert C. Robbins addresses the importance of the matter here. Gustav Hugo (1764-1844). It is responsible for developing first around the initial draft of the historicist ideology, especially in his two works MANUAL AS A NATURAL LAW PHILOSOPHY OF POSITIVE LAW and LAWS ARE THE ONLY SOURCES OF RULES LEGAL? It argues that the law has been formed in different stages of the legislative authority to (Custom, Common Law and praetorian law), that the right of society, born to mediate contract and without imposing the will of God, similar to happens with language. .