Hedges, Job E. Common Sense in Politics (1910)

Hedges, Job E. Common Sense in Politics. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910. First Edition. [9432] Cream cloth with gilt decoration, light soil to binding, small ding to the foredge of the rear board, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, top page edge gilt, pencil note filling the ffep with recommendation & personal knowledge of the author, 253 clean pp., tight, most of the pages remain unopened. Very good. Hardcover. Published October, 1910. "Amen Corner Edition" in gilt on front."It would not have been inconsistent to have entitled this small volume 'Political Psychology.' It is not the purpose of the writer to indulge in didactics or polemics, but merely to describe things as they are in a particular field of activity, and by that description arouse a different attitude of mind, so that more normal conclusions may be reached. It is a wast of time to enact laws to govern the conduct of men if these laws are based on the assumption that the men to be affected are what they ought to be rather t