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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
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INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE TWO SERIES OF LECTURES BY Sin J.
R SEELEY, K. C. M. G., LiTT. D. 11FGIUS 1 ROFESHOR OF MODERN
HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE KELLOW OF OONVILLE AND CAH-S
COLLEGE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND HONORARY MEMBER
OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS MACMILLAN AND CO.,
LIMITED ST. MAKTINS STREET, 1919 First Edition 1896 R efinnted with
additions 1896 Reprinted 1901, 1902, 1908, ign, 1914, 1910 PREFACE
IX VIIL, as the connection of thought had been broken by the large
transfer of matter from the 1891 course in Lecture VII. Further, I
have not hesitated to make one or two minor consequential changes
of phrase which appeared to be rendered necessary by the insertions
that I have just described, in order to prevent slight
inconsistencies between the earlier and later expressions of the
writers views. I have also here and there omitted repetitions more
suitable to an oral lecture than to a book, and once or twice
altered the position of sentences and, generally speaking, have
made such corrections as I thought it probable that the author
would have made before publishing the lectures. In the books
prepared by himself for publication, Seeley was, as I know, un
sparing of pains in rewriting such portions as did not come up to
his ideal. I have felt, therefore, that it would be unjust to his
memory to let this posthumous book go forth without such correction
of inadvertencies as I was able to make. No reader can feel more
strongly than I do how inadequate a substitute this is for his own
revision. In reading these lectures it is important to bear in mind
that, being written for oral delivery, they were composed on a plan
materiallydifferent from that which would be appropriate in a
manual of political science designed to be read. Their aim was to
impart a complete system, but to communicate X INTRODUCTION TO
POLITICAL SCIENCE a method, and to excite the hearers to an
independent exercise of thought in applying it. It is from this
point of view that the lecturers incisive and un sparing criticism
of current notions and accepted generalisations should be judged
since even those who may think it occasionally somewhat one-sided
can hardly refuse to admit the stimulating quality of this
criticism. I do not mean to suggest that Seeley ever artificially
forced his ideas into a para doxical form such a procedure would
have been incompatible with his habitual sincerity and his ideal of
academic duty. But the conversations, always deeply interesting,
which I from time to time had with him on different subjects at
which he was work ing, led me to think that truth was apt to come
to him in the garb of paradox using the word in its strict sense
that the new ideas which his original and penetrating intellect
developed had a natural tendency to assume, quite spontaneously, a
form strongly opposed to the popular drift of thought on the
subject and that it required a subsequent de liberate effort to
qualify and reduce this opposition. As regards the general view
that these lectures enforce and illustrate the two-sided doctrine 1
that the right method of studying political science is an
essentially historical method, and 2 that the right method of
studying political history is to study it as material for political
science I think it may be said PREFACE XI that this was one of his
deepest and most permanent convictions. Heannounced it in the
inaugural lecture which he delivered on his accession to the Chair
of History in Cambridge and it grew stronger and clearer as years
went on, and assiduous study en larged his knowledge and deepened
his insight into the development of historic polity...
After a certain time the society thus founded on kindred or common
religion or both, becomes aware that its union is a thing valuable
for its own sake, that government and organisation and co-operative
life are useful in themselves to the individuals who possess them.
Hence there springs up the conception of a common good, a common
weal, which is independent of such considerations as kindred or
religion; by degrees the society disengages itself from these
props...-from Introduction to Political ScienceOne of the most
important and respected historians of his day was also a beloved
professor at Cambridge University, where his classes and lectures
were famous for their clarity and enlightenment. It's easy to see
why students clamored to be taught by Seeley: in this collection of
lectures, delivered in the late 1880s and early 1890s and published
posthumously in book form in 1896, he shares his thoughts on
methods of studying the past in with such clear-eyed lucidity, in
such warm and jargon-free language that complicated concepts are
rendered perfectly plain.Also available from Cosimo Classics:
Seeley's lectures on The Expansion of England.British classical
scholar SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY (1834-1895) was Regius Professor of
Modern History at Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Historical
Society, and an honorary member of Historical Society of
Massachusetts. He is also the author of Ecce Homo.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757-1831) was a
Prussian statesman who contributed to the political transformation
of Germany and Prussia during the Napoleonic Period, a
transformation that led eventually to the unification of Germany in
1871. In Volume 3 of this three-part biography, originally
published in 1878, Seeley records Stein's life from 1813 to 1831,
during which time Stein retired from public life after the fall of
Napoleon. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in
the Napoleonic Period or the history of Germany.
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