Edward A. Freeman epub Comparative Politics: Politic, Six Lectures Read Before the Royal Institution, in January and February, With the Unity of History, the Rede Lecture ... of Cambridge, May 29 (Classic Reprint)

Lectures read before the Royal Institution arc an attempt to make something like a systematic application of a line of argument which has been often made use of in particular cases botlf by myself and by other writers. They arc an attempt to claim for political institutions a right to a scientific treatment of exactly the same kind as that which has been so successfully applied to language, to mythology, and to the progress of culture. But of course they do not themselves attempt to do more than make a beginning, by applying the Comparative method to some of the most prominent institutions of those among the A ryan nations whose history was best known to myself and was likely to be best known to my hearers. Nothing more than this could well be done in a course of lectures, even if my own knowledge had enabled me to carry my illustrations over a much wider range. But I trust that olhers whose studies have lain in other branches of history jnay i Jeled to take up the subject and to carry it on further. Whlt I have done may perhaps be enough to show that Greeksx I talians, and Teutons have a la-ge common stock of institutions, institutions whose likeness cannot be otfterwise accounted for than by the supposition of their corrjmon primitive origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org