THE DIVISION OF GOVERNMENTAL POWER IN ANCIENT GREECE

HISTORICALLY, facts and theories are inseparably connected. The facts first give rise to the theories, and the theories then react on and modify the facts. Both are alike historical phenomena. And it seldom happens, even under foreign influence, that the theory gets very far ahead of the facts, notwithstanding its usual claim to issue from pure reason and to possess eternal and absolute validity. Both facts and theories must therefore be duly weighed and considered in every institutional investigation...