The Science of Politics, 



By SHELDON AMOS, M. A., 



Author of " The Science of Law," etc. 



12mo. ------ Cloth, $1.75. 



CONTENTS : Chapter I. Nature and Limits of the Science of Politics; II. 

 Political Teras; III. Political Reasoning; IV. The Geo<j;raphical Area of Mod- 

 ern Politics ; V. The Primary Elements of Political Life and Action ; VI. Con- 

 Btitutions; VII. Local Government; VIII. The Government of Depeiidenciep ; 

 IX. Foreij,Ti Relations; X. The Province of Government; XI. Revolutions in 

 States ; XII. Right and Wrong in Politics. 



" It is an able and exhaustive treatise, within a reasonable compass. Some 

 of its conclusions will be disputed, although sterling common sense is a char- 

 acteristic of the book. To the political student and the practical statesman it 

 ought to be of great value."— iVeiy Ywk Herald. 



" The author traces the subject from Plato and Aristotle in Greece, and Cicero 

 in Rome, to the modern schools in the English field, not slighting the teachings 

 of the American Revolution or the lessons of the French Revolution of 1793. 

 Forms of government, political terms, the relation of law written and unwritten 

 to the subject, a codification from Justinian to Napoleon in France and Field in 

 America, are treated as parts of the subject in hand. Necessarily the subjects 

 of executive and legislative authority, police, liquor, and land laws are con- 

 sidered, and the question ever growing in importance in all countries, the rela- 

 tions of corporations to the State."— iV-JZ/J York Observer, 



"The preface is dated at Alexandria, and the author says in it that a two 

 years' journey round the world— in the course of which he visited the chief 

 centers of political life, ancient and modern, in Europe, America, Australasia, 

 Polynesia, and North Africa— not only helped him with illustrations, but was of 

 no small use to him in stimulating thought. Mr. Amos treats his subject broad- 

 ly, and with the air of having studied it exhaustively. The work will be of real 

 assistance to the student of political economy, and even to the reader who wishes 

 to extend his general knowledge of politics without a regular course of reading." 

 — Boston Transcript. 



"The work is one of the most valuable of its series, discnssing its subject in 

 all its phases as illustrated in the world's history. The chapters on Constitu- 

 tions, on Foreign Relations, on the Province of Government, and on Right and 

 Wrong in Politics, are particularly able and thoushtful. In that on Revolu- 

 tions in States, the unreasonableness of the attempted revolution of the South- 

 ern States in this cotintry is disposed of in a few incisive sentences."— Z/Oito;i 

 Gazette. 



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