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"THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD".(essay/lecture on political science)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20000501
Author:CATLEY, BOB

IT IS AN HONOUR to be giving an inaugural professorial lecture at the first university in New Zealand. The title of it comes from the reported deathbed utterance of the first political scientist, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). It expresses, in sixteenth-century terms, the warning that idealism in politics is rarely compatible with the operation of the forces of political behaviour.

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