The Development Of The European Polity

Author : Henry Sidgwick
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ISBN 13 : 9781330491591
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Development of European Polity (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Sidgwick and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of European Polity The book here offered to the public consists of lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge to students of history and of moral sciences. In arranging it for publication I have retained the lecture form, so as to avoid unnecessary changes of phraseology. It had of late years been more and more decidedly the author's view - as he has left on record - that a threefold treatment of politics is desirable for completeness: - first, an exposition analytical and deductive, such as he attempted in his work on the Elements of Politics; secondly, an evolutionary study of the development of polity within the historic period in Europe, beginning with the earliest known Graeco-Roman and Teutonic polity, and carried down to the modern state of Europe and its colonies as the last result of political evolution; thirdly, a comparative study of the constitutions of Europe and its colonies in connexion with the history of what may be called the constitution-making century which has just ended. The present book is an attempt at a treatment of political science from the second point of view. A description of its plan and scope will be found in the first lecture. In reading the book it should be borne in mind that it does not deal with theoretical politics as such. The theory of politics is treated in Elements of Politics, where the work and structure of the modern state are examined, and though the present book is complete in itself, it is intended that, for a full view of the subject, both books should be read. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sidgwick often gave a course of lectures on Political Theory along with the lectures contained in this book-some of his pupils attending both courses. With regard to the third point of view, the comparative study of present constitutions would, as Mr. Sidgwick himself said, to some extent overlap with this book, but only in its later part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."