barrowing the murder's knife without commiting the crime. administration and politics

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The Study of Public Administration

III.    Determination of the best methods by which to develop administration and the most clarifying political conceptions to carry into administration
All forms of government are different but they also have their likeness. For all governments alike, the legitimate ends of administration are the same, in order not to be frightened at the ideas of looking into foreign systems of administration for instruction and suggestion; in order to get rid of the apprehension that we might perchance blindly borrow something incompatible with our principles. We can borrow the science of administration with safety and profit if only we read all fundamental differences of condition into its essential tenets. We can never learn either our own weaknesses or our own virtues by comparing ourselves with ourselves. For instance, if you see a murderous fellow sharpening a knife cleverly, you can borrow his way of sharpening the knife without borrowing his probable intention to commit murder with it; and so, if you see a monarchist dyed-in-the-wool managing a public bureau well, you can learn his business methods without changing one of your republican spots. He may serve his king; you will continue to serve the people. By studying administration as a means of putting our own politics into convenient practice and as a means of making what is democratically politic – we are on perfectly safe ground.

The dcihotomy of between politics and administration can be avoided by barrowing the murder's knife without commiting the crime. 

 

이 문구가 어디서 나왔는지.. 가장 가까운 말은 위의 paragraph에 있다. 

knife를 빌려올때 그 장인의 칼을 가는 이유에 떠난 칼을 가는 법만 배워오는 것이다.