McMaster's letter to Miller's son encourages him to hope that their "sick man" may survive the crisis of his malady which is an infirmity of mind rather than body. This "sick man" they refer to is the world of politics generally. Miller says it is considered impertinent of anyone to pretend to understand astronomy, physiology, medicine, or law without having studied these sciences. Yet, every one feels himself adept in the science of politics. The governing class insist that they alone are capable of judging correctly. The governed also have an idea as to how politics should be handled. The governing class are by their position entirely incapable of an elevated and exact opinion upon general politics because the more they are absorbed in practice, the less they are able to theorize. The governed, on the other hand, assume that every man has an instinctive aptitude and inspired gift of the legislative faculty considering him equally as competent to run the machine as his neighbor. The governed will be the first to understand that when political science shall be elevated to the rank of the exact sciences, it will then be indispensably necessary, in order to understand it, to have studied. The same confidence they now accord to the exact sciences will then be reposed in their political faculty. Miller claims that political art, like every other art, has its corresponding science, which is essential to the statesman. The country has a military academy at West Point and a naval school at New Port but where is the academy for political science argues Miller. Politics is the sum total of all the sciences and the most difficult. He wishes to have politics elevated to an exact science with a positive basis and the same harmony will result as in mathematics, astronomy, etc. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.