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A TREATISE

ON

THE METHODS

OF

OBSERVATION AND REASONING

IN

POLITICS.

BY

GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.

MDCCCLII.

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On the Continuing Operation of Causes in Politics.

§ 1 Meaning of the cessation of a cause.

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2 In politics, effects generally outlast their original cause.
3 Question whether a law ceases with the cessation of its cause.

On Political Theory, and the Universality of Propositions
respecting Political Causation.

§ Mode of investigating the general problem of causation in

politics

2 Universal propositions can be laid down in positive politics.
3 Principles of universal jurisprudence, how far they can be
called universal

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