Charles Sumner: “As a science, it is determined by knowledge, like any other science…”

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As a science, it is determined by knowledge, like any other science, aided by that universal handmaid, the philosophy of induction.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that government, like other sciences, is determined by knowledge and the philosophy of induction.

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Charles Sumner: “As a science, it is determined by knowledge, like any other science, aided by that universal handmaid, the philosophy of…”