CHAPTER VII. 



LAW IN POLITICS. 



A T first sight it may be thought that the means 

 by which we can operate on the Wills of 

 individual men, and of communities of men, are 

 contained within a narrow compass, and are such 

 as to be all, if not within easy reach, at least with- 

 in easy recognition. And it is true that some 

 methods of operating on the minds of men we do 

 know instinctively, just as in the material world we 

 know by the first rudiments of intelligence how 

 to accomplish a few physical results. But experi- 

 ence and observation teach us, although they teach 

 us very slowly, that direct appeals to the reason, or 

 direct appeals to the feelings of men, are entirely 

 useless when those faculties have not been placed 



