Blurb:

If the previous chapter witnessed some of the historical uses and abuses to which the comparative method, if in fact we can call what passed for it as a method, has been put, the present chapter seeks to confront such abuses and begin the process of reclaiming comparison for more sober-minded and analytical purposes. Examples show comparison taking place at the micro level (Smith, Dempsey), the macro level (Prothero) and the theoretical level (Paden).