Kitap 1
4.6
But in proportion as anyone endeavors to make of Dialectic or Rhetoric, not what they are, faculties, but sciences, to that extent he will, without knowing it, destroy their real nature, in thus altering their character, by crossing over into the domain of sciencesTaking εἰς ἐπιστήμας with μεταβαίνειν. If taken with ἐπισκευάζων, the sense will be: by changing his ground ( μεταβαίνειν being used absolutely) while altering their characters from faculties to sciences., whose subjects are certain definite things, not merely words.
4.7
Nevertheless, even at present we may mention such matters as it is worth while to analyze, while still leaving much for political science to investigate.
4.7
Now, we may say that the most important subjects about which all men deliberate and deliberative orators harangue, are five in number, to wit: ways and means, war and peace, the defence of the country, imports and exports, legislation.
