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The Study of Administration Woodrow Wilson P18 第 二 部 分 的 前 两 段 The field of administration is a field of business
It is removed from the hurry and strife of politics; it at most points stands apart even from the debatable ground of constitutional study
It is a part of political life only as the methods of the counting-house are a part of the life of society; only as machinery is part of the manufactured product
But it is, at the same time, raised very far above the dull level of mere technical detail by the fact that through its greater principles it is directly connected with the lasting maxims of political wisdom, the permanent truths of political progress
The object of administrative study is to rescue executive methods from the confusion and costliness