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Now laws may be called the performances or tangible results of

Political Science; how then can a man acquire from these the

faculty of Legislation, or choose the best? we do not see men

made physicians by compilations: and yet in these treatises men

endeavour to give not only the cases but also how they may be

cured, and the proper treatment in each case, dividing the

various bodily habits. Well, these are thought to be useful to

professional men, but to the unprofessional useless. In like

manner it may be that collections of laws and Constitutions would

be exceedingly useful to such as are able to speculate on them,

and judge what is well, and what ill, and what kind of things fit

in with what others: but they who without this qualification

should go through such matters cannot have right judgment, unless

they have it by instinct, though they may become more intelligent

in such matters.