ON

THE METHODS

OF

OBSERVATION AND REASONING

IN

POLITICS.

BY

GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.

MDCCCLII.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XIII.

p. 1

On the Determination of the Hypothetical Effects

of a Political Cause.

§ 1 General hypothetical effects

2 Special hypothetical effects. Method of determining the

effects of a proposed law

3 Extent to which the effects of a proposed law can be calculated

4 Means of counteracting the probable impediments to a pro-

posed law

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CHAPTER XIV.

On the Continuing Operation of Causes in Politics.

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§ Meaning of the cessation of a cause.

2 In politics, effects generally outlast their original cause

3 Question whether a law ceases with the cessation of its cause .

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CHAPTER XV.

On Political Theory, and the Universality of Propositions

respecting Political Causation.

§ 1 Mode of investigating the general problem of causation in

politics

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2. Universal propositions can be laid down in positive politics. 25

3. Principles of universal jurisprudence, how far they can be

called universal

27

4 Universal principles of human nature ; their limits.

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5 Universal propositions respecting political power

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