Excerpt from Origin of Government
The nature, meaning, and origin of government are subjects which have engaged the attention of some of the most celebrated writers in the history of the world. Yet all early treatises on government, though they attest the importance and fascination of a subject which concerns the whole human race, are vitiated as political investigations by defects which are inseparable from premature speculation upon intricate social problems. All thinkers since the time of Comte are aware that there is a certain order in which the various departments of human knowledge must be taken if the results obtained are to possess a really scientific value. If this order is inverted, and a subject which properly comes last in the hierarchy of science is of such intense human interest as to tempt the enquiring mind to undertake its study out of due course, before the discovery of other important truths has duly prepared the way, the accuracy and reliability of the conclusion is sure to be correspondingly impaired. Certain sciences can, in fact, be built up only on the basis of conclusions which other sciences have incidentally supplied.
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