Excerpt from Politics and Metaphysics If there is a science of politics, it must be developed as other sciences have been, by an examination and com parison of historical data with a view to the discovery of the causes which underlie important political phenomena, -a.nd not, as is too often done, by judging of such phe nomena according to purely empirical rules. It is equally fallacious to justify political action by its results, or to condemn it on a priori grounds; and it is only by the application of the inductive ...
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Excerpt from Politics and Metaphysics If there is a science of politics, it must be developed as other sciences have been, by an examination and com parison of historical data with a view to the discovery of the causes which underlie important political phenomena, -a.nd not, as is too often done, by judging of such phe nomena according to purely empirical rules. It is equally fallacious to justify political action by its results, or to condemn it on a priori grounds; and it is only by the application of the inductive method that revolutionary periods, like those of Machiavelli and Napoleon, can be properly understood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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