Excerpt from The American Science of Politics: Its Origins and ConditionsC this book is concerned with the idea of a science of politics as an episode and as a tendency in American political thought and intellectual history. It seeks to explain the special plausibility to American students of politics of the View that politics can be under stood (and perhaps practised) by 'the method of the natural sciences'.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.