Talk:Polizeiwissenschaft

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[edit] translation of "polizei"

i actually found a use of the english word "police" in just that sense. Stephen Pinker in his Book "The Blank Slate" cites Rousseau, but i was unable to find the original source. my emphasis. police must mean something like "public policy" or "politics" in this context.

In 1755 Rousseau wrote: So many authors have hastily concluded that man is naturally cruel, and requires a regular system of police to be reclaimed; whereas nothing can be more gentle than him in his primitive state, when placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the pernicious good sense of civilized man. . . .

add. evidence in the editsummaries. --90.128.113.134 14:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)