The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-08

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WASHINGTON, Oct.6, 1875.
l am indebted to some one, who has
my thanks therefor, for copy of Mr..
Charles Reemelin's "Treatise on Politics
as a Seience,n which-as faithfully as is
consistent with my natural impatience
Of the labor Of following other peopie's
trains OF ideas--I have read. Writing in
another language than that TO which he
is native, Mr.. Reemelin has not that idi-
omatlc freedom and epigrammatic facil.
ity in the use of the English which con-
stitutes the highest modes of rhetorical
efficiency. This, however, is minor
consideration, except in the respect Of
perpetuity. AS the world is at present
constituted, books survive more on ac-
count of their dialectio than their dog
matte excellence, and many book
maintains its place by its manner, after
men have ceased to care for the matter 1t
contains. Hi Alf
Mr.. Reemelin's book lays no claim to
be considered o systematic or complete
body OF political instruction; and there
fore as such it is not amenable to criti-
cism. 1t is nevertheless a good book; q
book creditable alike to the abilities and
the disposition, Of its author; book that
can with advantage be read from begin
ming to end, and which the friends of the
uthor will be glad to own and preserve.
IL is a bold book, bearing testimony that
the author began to be loyal to his read
ers by being faithful to himself. He has
written as he, believes-from the stand
point of his own observation and refec-
tions, and has expressed his opinion
often with force, and, almost always,
with clearness and perspicacity. The
exceptions are when he indulges pro-
pensity to interlaoe his sentences with
maxims and phrases drawn frem authors
| OF supposed eminence, by which their
sentinlentis seldom fortified, While their
force is sometimes diminished and their
meaning confused. No exact thinkef-
as MIR. Reemelin is-needs this species
of endowment, or Gun profit by it.
No two mems philosophers ever run
exactly parallel; and very few Things
that one original thinker has written can
safely be treated as axioms byianother.
There are more books written from the
| standpoint of ignorance than that of
knowledge; and in innumerable In
lstances, ii the author had comprehended
the subject upon which he wrote, he
would not have written.
| Ii is no disparagement Of Mr.. Reeme-
lin to say that, as a political ply sioio-
gist, his skill in the departments OF path
ology is superior to his skill in that of
Therapeutics; in other words, that he is
more fortunate in describing the symp-
toms of political disease than IL. pre-
scribing The remedy; for, in this RESPECT.
ne does not differ from the rest OF man
kind. In general believing in the prin-
ciple that the province of the piysicl an
is to clear away abnormal distractions,
SO that the natural forces will be left
free TO work out the remedy, he has still
not entirely outgrown his faith in special
lnostrums and artificial contrlyances.
He Is little Impatient to have the hui
man race get along faster than it would
going at its own naturalgai and indull-
ing in it's constitutional delays and me-
anaeEings. Well, who is not? ,., ,,