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Updated: May 17, 2025
Of all the sciences, Policy is the most immersed in matter, and the hardliest reduced to axiom'; but setting out from that which is constant and universal in nature, this philosopher is not afraid to undertake it; and, indeed, that is what he is bent on; for unless those universal, historical principles, which he has taken so much pains to exhibit to us clearly in their abstract form, 'terminate in matter and construction according to the true definitions, they are speculative and of little use. The termination of them in matter, and the new construction according to true definitions, is the business here.
He too takes a naturalist's estimate of those larger wholes, and their virtues, and faculties of resistance. 'Civil knowledge is conversant about a subject, he says, 'which is, of all others, most immersed in matter, and hardliest reduced to axiom.
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