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the logic of politics since the notion of treating it by strict 

 rules, and on Baconian principles, has been current among 

 the more advanced thinkers. These erroneous methods, if the 

 word method can be applied to erroneous tendencies arising 

 from the absence of any sufficiently distinct conception of 

 method, may be termed the Experimental, or Chemical, mode 

 of investigation, and the Abstract, or Geometrical, mode. We 

 shall begin with the former. 



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