The Evolution of States

AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH POLITICS
ESSAYS TOWARDS A CRITICAL METHOD. NEW ESSAYS TOWARDS A CRITICAL METHOD. WINNOWINGS FROM WORDSWORTH. WALT WHITMAN: An Appreciation. MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE. (Second Edition, with additional Essays on cognate subjects.) BUCKLE AND HIS CRITICS: a Sociological Study. THE SAXON AND THE CELT: a Sociological Study. MODERN HUMANISTS: Essays on Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Spencer. (Fourth Edition.) THE FALLACY OF SAVING: a Study in Economics. THE EIGHT HOURS QUESTION: a Study in Economics. (Second Edition.) THE DYNAMICS OF RELIGION: an Essay in English Culture-History. By M.W. Wiseman. A SHORT HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT, Ancient and Modern. (Second Edition: 2 vols.) PATRIOTISM AND EMPIRE. (Third Edition.) STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS FALLACY. WRECKING THE EMPIRE. A SHORT HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY. CHRISTIANITY AND MYTHOLOGY. (Second Edition.) CRITICISMS. 2 vols. TENNYSON AND BROWNING AS TEACHERS. ESSAYS IN ETHICS. ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY. 2 vols. LETTERS ON REASONING. (Second Edition.) DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE TITUS ANDRONICUS ? PIONEER HUMANISTS: Essays on Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Gibbon, and Mary Wollstonecraft. TRADE AND TARIFFS. COURSES OF STUDY. CHAMBERLAIN: A STUDY. PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE. CHARLES BRADLAUGH. By Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner. Part II. by J.M.R. PAGAN CHRISTS: Studies in Comparative Hierology. (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded.) THE MEANING OF LIBERALISM.
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The sociologist has three main quests—first, he must try to discover the conditions that determine mere aggregation and concourse. Secondly, he must try to discover the law that governs social choices—the law, that is, of the subjective process. Thirdly, he must try to discover also the law that governs the natural selection and the survival of choices—the law, that is, of the objective process.
— Professor Giddings.
The following treatise is an expansion, under a new title, of one originally published (1900) under the name of An Introduction to English Politics . Several friendly reviewers of that work objected, not unjustly, that its title was something of a misnomer, or at least an imperfect indication of its contents. It had, as a matter of fact, originated remotely in a lecture delivered as preliminary to a course on Modern English Politicians (from Bolingbroke to Gladstone), the aim of the prefatory address being to trace in older politics, home and foreign, general laws which should partly serve as guides to modern cases, or at least as preparation for their scientific study; while the main course dealt with modern political problems as they have arisen in the careers and been handled by the measures of modern English statesmen. It was that opening exposition, developed into an essay, and published as a series of magazine articles, that had been further expanded into this treatise, by way of covering the ground more usefully; and the original name is therefore retained as a sub-title.