The Cameralists PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...in eclipsing them partly because he had rather unusually acute political instincts. Besides this, he was a skilled organizer of literary material. If he was not a plagiarist in the strict sense, he was a persistent absorber and purveyor of other people's ideas as his own. While this fact foredooms certain tendencies to idealize Justi as an originator in the social sciences, it indicates his value as a summarizcr of previous social science. Justi i Staotswirlhschaft, I, xxiv. ' Natur and Wesen der Staaten, pp. 176 ff. repeatedly excuses his omission to cite other writers, on the ground that such references merely serve to parade an author's learning. He has a euphemistic substitute for frank confession in the following passage: ' I have never owned a book which I have not read entirely through, and my memory was so strong that in case of all notable passages I not only knew the volume in which they were to be found, but also the chapter and usually the page. Indeed, I have often introduced into my writings from memory passages many lines long without again referring to the book. This extraordinary memory has been growing weaker for several years, and I am learning the value of good tables of contents. Our plan requires a review of the most important of Justi's cameralistic books, as nearly as possible in their chronological order. We shall find at least the elements of all his subsequent books in the Staatswirthschaft We must give more than passing notice to the strategic force of the expression on the title-page, "which are requisite for the government of a country." The phrase at once puts to the front the purpose and viewpoint of cameralism, viz.: E. g., in the last paragraph of the Vorrede of the first edition of GrundstUte der...