Show POLITICAL PROGRESS progress inveighing against ilie dissensions and strafes of partisanship advances the following tol the great law of intellectual advancement in borud in time to give us a science of politics in principles of truth instead of the arts of partisanship just as certain as it has given us a science of navigation agriculture and we concur in the foregoing expression oi faith in the perfection of the final results of political progress that is we believe that the law of intellectual progress will give us a science of politics if it be a science it necessity be grounded in principles of truth alie mere definition of politics as a science excludes arts of partisanship as its foundation but there is little analogy between political science and that of navigation agriculture and chemistry not chemical manufacture in these latter sciences the subject matter is passive in mans hands ingredients submit to analysis the retort crucible blow pipe they are combined in a thousand ways they yield untold wonders to the microscope their qualities take form in the sunlight and in the star beams and by means of aliese we know the qualities of matter in the heavenly bodies all this because matter is constant and passive its nature and its modes of action or being aro the same the same is true of navigation and agriculture the subject matter Is open to hinves li catlon the problem is to fully ander stand the phenomena before you you experiment in agriculture the whole system of causation Is before you for inspection you can shift your material in a thousand ways to fand out its possibilities hut it is not so in political why because the subject matter Is not passive the problem Is broader than the phenomena the history of the world will have to be complete before we can have a perfect political Ec ienco man will have first to express abe fullness of his being before you can set a science of him or his government in a perfect tense it would be folly for the wisest of men now living to undertake to draft a edof rules for the government of roan a thousand years hence why the constitution of the united states has grown like tree all thron gli the hundred and five years since its adoption just as much the english constitution which is unwritten the fact is almost the only source of political science is the process of human evolution in its early stages human development would give slavery as component of society and political science would fell all about bow to handle slaves hence we fand slavery a necessary part of early polity if the race had stopped there slavery would be a permanent nent part of science hut the race did not stop there war bloodshed a thousand disasters and calamities a dissensions and strafes fes all hese lifted the race out of the condition wherein would necessity have been a part of political science the same Is true of every other widely ex tended evil that has obtained lodgment in bunian they would have been a part of abe political science of abe world if humanity hd stopped it that point in its onward career wp must reckon very largely in forecasting a real of politics it Is MS certain a that we exist today that in the far off future no political institution iio social custom no right of property no system of education edn cation will be retained as a part of political science in the meantime and as a means of progress the spontaneous outgoings of 19 race abe struggles for larger and truer liberty the discussions and dissensions for a better knowledge of things abe strafes and par for abe 1 I selfish ends these will come into play and open the eyes of man and the doors of progress to truer living and a exemplification of real political science |