Public administration is the totality of the working day activities of all of the world's bureaucrats, all of the people who work for governxnenbr/ vhether their activities are legal or illegal, competent or incompetent, $ccent or despkable. It is very much like trhe cosmos once described by fhe British scie~rtistJ . B. S. Haldane: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose," Things are much the same with public administration. It is not only far vaster in scope than most citizens suppose, it is so extensive md per~rasivein . modern life that not even the most imaginative of us can haghe.
