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Book SynopsisProfessor Catlin in the course of his career has contributed a number of major works in the fields of politics: The Science and Method of Politics (1926), Principles of Politics (1930), History of the Political Philosophers (1938). These books were considered 'refreshing,' 'brilliant,' 'eminently stimulating,' 'genuinely constructive.' The trail blazed by their author some thirty years ago through the forest of 'unscientific' political thinking has since been followed by many others and has widened into one of the main highways of twentieth-century political though.
The new approach of Professor Catlin was notable because it distinguished between political philosophy, with its values and ends, and the scientific study of means; it broke away from older studies and broadened the concept of Politics, in an Aristotelian sense; it bridged the divorce between Politics and Sociology; it stressed the quantitative method; it pioneered in the 'power theory of
