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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chapter{Section 4ERRATA. p. 8 (I. 5 from bottom) for This existence read, The existence, p. 41 (1. 15 from top)/w; read, p. 43 In footnote insert Tarde before La Logique Sociale. p. 140 (line 3 from iop)/or substatial read substantial, p. 238 in place of footnote 1 read, 'Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophic, iii. 477. p. 241 (1. II from top) after consciousness insert ." p. 252 in place of footnote 1 read "No human mind has ever conceived a new animal." Ruskin, Modern Painters, ii. 148. p. 298. footnote 1 (bottom t1e) for a read act, Index under Plato add 297, after Rousseau add Ruskin (quoted) 252 n. chapter{Section 5THE PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY OF THE STATE. CHAPTER I. RISE AND CONDITIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY OF THE STATE. i. First, it will be well to indicate, in a very few words, what is implied in a " philosophical theory," as distinguished from theories which make no claim to be philosophical. The primary difference is, that a philosophical treatment is the study of something as a whole and for its own sake. In a certain sense it may be compared to the gaze of a child or of an artist. It deals, that is, with the total and unbroken effect of its object. It desires to ascertain what a thing is, what is its full characteristic and being, its achievement in the general act of the world. History, explanation, analysis into cause and conditions, have value for it only in so far as they contribute to the intelligent estimation of the fullest nature and capabilities of the real individual whole which is under investigation. We all know that a flower is one thing for the geometrician, another for the chemist, another forthe botanist, and another, again, for the artist. Now, philosophy can of course make no pretension to cope with any one of...