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Is not then the next question to consider from whom or how the science of legislation can
be learnt? Perhaps, like other subjects, from the experts, namely the politicians; for we
saw1 that legislation who is a
branch of political science. But possibly it may seem that political science is unlike the
other sciences and faculties. In these the persons who impart a knowledge of the faculty
are the same as those who practice it, for instance physicians and painters; but in
politics the sophists, who profess to teach the science, never practice it. It is
practiced by the politicians, who would appear to rely more upon a sort of empirical skill
than on the exercise of abstract intelligence; for we do not see them writing or lecturing
about political principles (though this might be a more honorable employment than
composing forensic and parliamentary speeches), nor yet do we notice that they
have made their own sons or any others of their friends into statesmen.
1 See 6.8.2.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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