Others are less obviously quantitative.

But even on the most complex political issues experienced and responsible statesmen do in fact think quantitatively, although the methods by which they reach their results are often unconscious.
When, however, all politicians start with intellectualist assumptions, though some half-consciously acquire quantitative habits of thought, many desert politics altogether from disillusionment and disgust.

What is wanted in the training of a statesman is the fully conscious formulation and acceptance of those methods which will not have to be unlearned.
Such a conscious change is already taking place in the work of Royal Commissions, International Congresses, and other bodies and persons who have to arrange and draw conclusions from large masses of specially collected evidence.

Their methods and vocabulary, even when not numerical, are nowadays in large part quantitative.
In parliamentary oratory, however, the old tradition of over-simplification is apt to persist.
_( PART II .-- Chapter I .-- Political Morality, page 167)_ But in what ways can such changes in political science affect the actual trend of political forces?
In the first place, the abandonment by political thinkers and writers of the intellectualist conception of politics will sooner or later influence the moral judgments of the working politician.

A young candidate will begin with a new conception of his moral relation to those whose will and opinions he is attempting to influence.