In other words, statute books and legal commentaries are all very well in the study of politics, if only you quite thoroughly understand that they furnish only the crude body-colors for your picture of the State’s life, upon which all your finer luminous and atmospheric effects are afterwards to be worked.
Wilson argues that legal texts provide only a basic understanding of the complex life of the state, which requires deeper interpretation.
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