"Machiavelli was aware of the limitations of technical knowledge; it was not Machiavelli himself, but his followers, who believed in the sovereignty of technique, who believed that government was nothing more than 'public administration' and could be learned from a book."
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Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics (1947), published in Rationalism in Politics and other essays (1962)
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