The Principles of Politics - An Introduction to the Study of the Evolution of Political Ideas #246522

I. The theory of Politics is the peculiar product of Western thought. Oriental thinkers have Speculated and meditated profoundly upon the nature of Reality and the Soul of Man, upon his virtues and his duties but only in Western civilization has the social consciousness of men attained that superior grade of political interest at which it demands a theory of the State and 'of its relations to the individual citizens who compose it.