Excerpt from The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in Which the Growth of Positive Law Is Unfolded by the Historical Method, and Its Elements Classified and Defined by the Analytical
The group of scholars who founded something more than a century ago the science now known as Comparative Philology revolutionized the thought of the world not so much through the marvelous revelations of that science as by the discovery of the new method of investigation that made such revelations possible. Out of the application of the new method to fresh subject-matters have since arisen Comparative Mythology, Comparative Politics, and Comparative Law. By the aid of the two sciences last named a flood of light has been shed upon the processes through which the aggregate, generally known as government and law, emerged from progressive history in the nations that have made the deepest impress upon civilization.
The most important single outcome of Comparative Politics - which may be called the science of state building, the science of constitutions - is embodied in the discovery that the only two conceptions of the state known to the ancient and modem world have been and are represented by aggregations or federations in which the starting point was the village community.
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