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animated by this ulterior and illegitimate design; and it has injured them as inquiries into ethics. Without aiming at any great exactitude, we may say roughly that the purpose of ethics is to ascertain what right and wrong are, perhaps to find out what is right and what wrong. But to do that is not necessarily to find out how to make men better. That is a subject to which many men have devoted their lives, but it has hardly been erected into a science. The reason is that those who have had the matter at heart have had a firm belief that they knew already how to bring about the result, and therefore had no need of a genuine inquiry into the theory of the art. With Polity it is very different. The question of how best to organize a government for man in general or for this or that particular people, and what the laws ought to be, or Jurisprudence, has received its full share of attentions. Even the question of what the Law of a given country actually is, although it does not essentially