What Alexander Hamilton thinks about politics

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American statesman (1755 or 1757 to 1804); first US Secretary of the Treasury and principal author of The Federalist.

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1. 21 Nov 1787

   Our readingThe science of politics has improved, discovering principles the ancients did not know

   Their wordsThe science of politics, however, like most other sciences, has received great improvement. The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

   ↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org All 27 from this book