Excerpt from The Happiness of Nations: A Beginning in Political Engineering
Science and reason. Physical and applied science. Ends, proximate and ultimate. Political science. Political engineering. Treats of the adaptation of the means of society to its end. What is its end?
Science originates in the application of reason to the beliefs and acts of men, and is divisible into two classes - physical science which guides belief and applied science which guides conduct. Applied science, as distinguished from physical, is concerned with the adaptation of means to ends, and ends are of two classes - proximate ends or those which are of interest only because they are themselves means, immediate or remote, to some ultimate end; and ultimate or intrinsic ends which are of interest not because of what they are means to, but because of what they are.
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