They think economists were used to act like doctors who had learnt the principles of medicine by rote and applied them without the least discrimination of the peculiarities of individual Constitutions.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
His pupil is to study men and politics thoroughly; to know the Constitutions of all European states, to read the history of modern times so far as it has a bearing upon business; to be thoroughly well informed as to the aims of kings and courts; to understand financial and diplomatic movements; briefly, as far as was then possible, to be an incarnate blue-book.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
To explain the course taken in the different societies, to ask how far it might be due to difference of characteristics, and of political Constitutions, of social organism and individual genius, would be a very pretty but rather large problem.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen