THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS BY SHELDON AMOS, M.A. BARRISTER-AT-LAW; AUTHOR OF 'THE SCIENCE OF LAW' RTC.; LATE PROFESSOR INNS OF COURT LATE EXAMINER IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE PREFACE. I HAVE done my best to avoid the temptation of constructing an ideal polity founded on mere guesses and hopes. That there is an ideal polity for each State, if not one for all States, I steadfastly believe. But it is only to be discovered in the paths of history and observation. In passing from the 'Science of Law' to that of Politics, some change of method is inevitable, owing to the superior complexity and larger range of the subjectmatter. But the exercise, once become familiar in the narrower field, of applying a severe terminology and logical process to ethical notions will be found of the highest service in the wider field. A two years' journey round the world, in the course of which I visited the chief centres of political life, ancient and modern, in Europe, America, Australasia, Polynesia, and North Africa, has not only helped me with illustrations, but has been of no small use in stimulating thought. ALEXANDRIA. |