The most frequent excursions into other than classical fields of knowledge on the part of members of the leisure class are made into the discipline of law and the political, and more especially the administrative, sciences.

These so-called sciences are substantially bodies of maxims of expediency for guidance in the leisure-class office of government, as conducted on a proprietary basis.

The interest with which this discipline is approached is therefore not commonly the intellectual or cognitive interest simply.

It is largely the practical interest of the exigencies of that relation of mastery in which the members of the class are placed.

In point of derivation, the office of government is a predatory function, pertaining integrally to the archaic leisure-class scheme of life.