Excerpt from The Principles of Politics: An Introduction to the Study of the Evolution of Political Ideas
A Preface is an opportunity for personal explanation.
This book is an attempt to fill a gap which, as a lecturer on Political Theory, I have often found embarrassing to students; and I cannot help thinking that others, too, must have experienced the same difficulty. There are two great texts of Political Philosophy in English; but most students seem to find them both more difficult than could be wished. For many years I hoped that the student could derive the knowledge which those works presuppose from a careful reading of Sir Frederick Pollock's brilliant lectures on the History of Political Science. But apparently the elegantiae of Sir Frederick's discourses are not appreciated at their full value by beginners. After waiting some seventeen years for some more competent philosopher to construct a bridge between Pollock's 'Lectures' and Dr. Bosanquet's 'Theory', I have attempted to build it myself. Thus, this work began as a text-book; and in a certain sense a text-book it remains. In its earlier drafts it was called 'a text-book for junior students'. But some of my friends - not all professors of philosophy - who read my manuscript in its earlier forms, found in it elements of more general interest; and they encouraged me to suppose that others, besides those for whom it was originally intended, might be interested in the book.
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