An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics
The book An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics was written by author Pollock, Frederick, Sir, 1845-1937 Here you can read free online of An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics a good or bad book?
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His constant purpose, whether in the affairs of Ireland, of England, or of France, is to appeal to experience Digitized by VjOOQIC 88 HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS against dogmatism. He will have for the guide of politics neither the bare letter of positive institutions nor bare deduction from universal propositions, but a rule of equity and utility founded on and preserving the rights and liberties which exist. He will treat politics as an experimental science,, not a scheme of d priori d...emonstration. Once he was challenged with substantial defection from his own principles. His Befledions on the French Revolution were said to be repugnant to his former public life. The result was the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in which, by dint of criticising the Jacobin theory of society, Burke is brought nearer than in any other of his works to an explicit statement of his own. We are bidden, he says, in the name of the supreme authority of the people to recognise as a matter, not of extraordinary necessity, but of common right, an un- limited power of changing the foundations of govern- ment.
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