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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ...ce or precision what we felt about that maga- zine. “To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” 67 H G Wells CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPT... ...nistered, but you don’t get rid of the need of administration, you know.” “Democracy,” said Chris Robinson. “Organised somehow,” said Denson. “ And it... ...er of mine (begotten by the visit of Chris Robinson) on the limits of pure democracy. It had marched with some thoughts of his own. We went by train t... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a... ...itechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of ol... ...ecular constructive hope. And here my peculiar difficulty as against crude democracy comes in. If humanity at large is capable of that high education ...

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...n with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very great... ...iled and failed and was still to be tested again and rejected again in the New World; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specia... ...hem. For a time they could not make instruments sound enough to stand this new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first gun... ...toler- ance, a trifle derisive, of the populace again—socialist ora- tors, politicians, a band, and the same wild uproar of dogs, frantic with the gla... ...y and then had a pedestrian tour from Genoa to Rome, crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family fo... ...at cast the smallest of shadows upon his delighted departure for Italy and Greece and Egypt with three congenial companions in one of the new atomic m... ...e speck of a life was so manifestly overwhelmed— this and its yesterday in Greece and Rome and Egypt were noth- ing, the mere first dust swirls of the... ...a way for any one interested to join in. That’s quite enough in the way of democracy. Perhaps later—when things don’t mat- ter…. We shall govern all r... ... the dead past bury its dead. You see, in regard to the calendar, I am for democracy and you are for aristocracy. All things I 100 The World Set Free...

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...or the murder, then, indeed, Lydia enjoyed high peace and security, but in Greece and the countries about it the like villanies again re- vived and br... ...at way back: That it was a 17 Plutarch’s Lives decree consented to by all Greece, that no vessel from any place, containing above five persons, shoul... ...s Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship be- came a ... ... to those of greater power he promised a commonwealth without monarchy , a democracy, or people’s government in which he should only be continued as t... ... having sent to consult the oracle of Delphi concerning the fortune of his new government and city, he received this answer: Son of the Pitthean maid,... ... begun: the fame of the strength and valor of Theseus being spread through Greece, Pirithous was desirous to make a trial and proof. of it himself, an... ...us kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be lorded over by a new-comer and a stranger. Whilst he was thus busied in infecting the minds ... ...archy, when the kings had the upper hand, and another while towards a pure democracy, when the people had the better, found in this establishment of t... ...librium; the twenty-eight always adhering to the kings so far as to resist democracy, and, on the other hand, supporting the people against the establ...

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...r mythological Arcadias are flat and stale. Arcadia is in Burgundy, not in Greece; Arcadia is at Les Aigues and nowhere else. A river, made by scores ... ...r knees around her. If Voltaire had not existed we might have thought it a new miracle. I don’t know if God gave her much credit for her tardy virtue,... ... field of lucern. I asked the reason of it, thinking I should hear of some new method of agriculture: “There sleep the cavalry of the imperial guard,”... ... were three such landlords in the valley his fortune would be made.” “What new harm are they going to do to the poor?” asked Marie. “A pretty wise thi... ...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ... An oligarchy of a hundred thousand rich men presents all the dangers of a democracy with none of its advantages. The principle of “every man for hims... ...ther. The audacity with which com- munism, that living and acting logic of democracy, attacks society from the moral side, shows plainly that the Sams... ...ate the history of the valley. This renegade serves to show the utility of democracy; he is at 189 Balzac once its theory and its practice, its alpha... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...tavius remained steadfast to the policy of Sylla, but Cinna, desirous of a new revolution, attempted to recall the lost in- terest of Marius, Sertoriu... ...g strong enough to give him battle, retreated with three thousand men into New Carthage, where he took shipping, and crossed the seas into Africa. And... ...bout negligently, the natives fell upon them and slew a great number. This new misfortune forced him to sail back again into Spain, whence he was also... ... entertainment, and the army a mere multitude of voters, canvassed as in a democracy for 44 V olume Two the election of this or that commander. Eumen... ...s to claim the command of the expedition, and by carrying the war far from Greece into Persia, to anticipate the designs of the bar- barian. He also w... ...ereigns both at sea and land, should not achieve some memorable action for Greece. And so to be even with Tisaphernes, he requites 59 Plutarch’s Live... ...ook off his head, and presently dealt with Agesilaus about his return into Greece, sending to him am- bassadors to that purpose, with commission to of... ...o the city, declaring in the name of the king, that he restored them their democracy, and that the whole Athenian people were at liberty to conduct th... ...er, of the whole 457 Plutarch’s Lives government from an aristocracy to a democracy; his action intimating that public speakers should address themse...

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...LLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M DENT & SONS LTD. &.IN NEW YORK BY E. P . DUTTON &. CO FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION 1912 REPRINTE... ...ng in the air. Students of the Academy had been actually called on to give new constitutions to Greek states. For the Greeks the constitution was not ... ...changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the position of the AEsumnetes, whom Aristotle describes ... ...eal, he also thinks of them as the result of the struggle between classes. Democracy, he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; ... ...auses of revolutions in Book V . shows how far were the existing states of Greece from the ideal with which he starts. His analysis of the facts force... ... houses. Now he is desirous to have his whole plan of government neither a democracy nor an oligarchy, but something between both, which he calls a po... ... [1266a] Laws, that the best form of government must, be one composed of a democracy and a tyranny; though such a mixture no one else would ever allow... ...os first drew up. This island seems formed by nature to be the mistress of Greece, for it is entirely surrounded by a navigable ocean which washes alm... ...and the Lesbians; for when they suddenly acquired the superiority over all Greece, they brought the other states into subjection, contrary to the trea...

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...nslator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. ... ... the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. ... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tocqueville Democracy In America Volume 1 By Alexis de Tocqueville T ranslator – Henry ... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ...own courts of justice. It cannot be doubted that the *This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to ex- ecute the decree of the Amphictyons; i... ...respecting their slaves. The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so 500 De... ...er say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece. If their social con- dition, their present circumstances, and their...

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...struction of capital and a waste of the savings that are needed to finance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young m... ...test young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if... ...lomacy of these present Allies may be (challenged constantly, as it is, by democracy and hampered by a free, venal and irrespon- sible Press in at lea... ... Powers in the 16 What Is Coming? world instead of some scores. And these new Powers will be in certain respects unlike any existing European “States... ...tituted labour and emergency arrangements. Our vague-minded, lax, mod- ern democracy has to pull itself together, has to take over and administer and ... ...make it invulnerable to foreign attack. Now in Great Britain, which is the democracy that has been most under the close observation of the present pro... ...rman Empire as a third Habsburg dukedom or kingdom; Roumania, Bulgaria and Greece were to continue as inde- pendent Powers, German ruled. Recently Ger... ...ff as possible. She has nothing to gain and much to fear from Roumania and Greece. Her present relations with Turkey are unnatural. She has everything... ...These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garrison cities settled in foreign lands—a...

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...a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (This old song and new simile holds good), ‘A dainty dish to set before the King,’ Or ... ... five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T is poetry — at least by his asserti... ...I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discov... ...im a good friend, but bad acquaintance. But something of the spirit of old Greece Flash’d o’er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward ... ...To ‘do at Rome as Romans do, ’ a piece Of conduct was which he observed in Greece. Thus, usually, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the diffe... ...the’s (see what says De Stael); In Italy he ‘d ape the ‘Trecentisti;’ In Greece, he sing some sort of hymn like this t’ ye: Byron’s Don Juan “C... ...r Wordsworth unexcised, unhired, who then Season’d his pedlar poems with democracy; Or Coleridge, long before his flighty pen Let to the Mor... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th...

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...f our men get elanned, we shall see them refusing to come up to time. This new crossing and medalling is the devil’s own notion for upsetting a solid ... ...ed earthiest earth. He praised Re- publicanism for that. The spirit of the new and short-lived Republic wrought that change in Venice. ‘Oh, if they’re... ...o others in uttermost distances where the in- credible flickering gleam of new heights arose, that soared, or stretched their white uncertain curves i... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by... ...the ordinary condi- tions of the world: these two countries are France and Greece! None other give you the perfect woman, the woman who conquers time,... ...glorious motion, odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. And the Continental travelling ninnies leave England for health!— r... ...ey who pull down the country. They hold up the nobles to the hatred of the democracy, and the democracy to scare the nobles. One’s when they want to s... ...herwise it comes to this wild preaching. These men are theory-tailors, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-... ...s inner mind. ‘Oh! not England, Italy, Italy!’ Renee exclaimed: ‘Italy, or Greece: anywhere where we have sunlight. Mountains and valleys are my dream...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...ong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywords now for all that is mean. Cuba is a colony,... ...tism will be trampled on hourly by the purposely vicious herd of un- couth democracy. The fact that he is paymaster will go for nothing, and will fail...

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... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ...ubled meadows and the dreamy flow of Tewin Water. She skirted the parks of politicians. At times the Great North 15 EM Forster Road accompanied her, ... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...ng with that parcel.” He strode into the booking-office, and called with a new voice: “Hi! hi, you there! Are you going to keep me waiting all day? Pa... ...s rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proc... ...y, lest he slip into the abyss where nothing counts, and the statements of Democracy are inaudible. As he walked away from Wickham Place, his first ca... ...mber you from year’s end to year’s end.” “Have you been in the East?” “Oh, Greece and the Levant. I used to go out for sport and business to Cyprus; s... ...red, a little surprised. “What did you talk about? Me, presumably.” “About Greece too.” “Greece was a very good card, Henry. Tibby’s only a boy still,... ...eater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece. Deep and true as the native imagination can be, it seems to have fa...

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... Two consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of t... ... Jany. 19, 1845. DEAR GENERAL: I do not wish to join in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I... ...uent body, than exists by the old, and which you propose to retain in your new plan. If we take the entire population of the counties as shown by the ... ...ns. His voice spoke war and peace in the contest with Great Britain. “When Greece rose against the Turks and struck for lib- erty, his name was mingle... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ...questions, so far as I know, the Judge never answers. It might involve the Democracy to answer them either way, and they go unanswered. As to Kansas. ... ...h party most favors amalgamation, the Republicans or the dear Union-saving Democracy. Dred Scott, his wife, and two daughters were all involved in the...

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...ing Me Now in Hand............................................125 For You, O Democracy......................127 These I Singing in Spring................ ... the Day ....................................................132 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?................................................. ... OREIGN L ANDS I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I sen... ...hing to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you... ...t maintain themselves, in higher stages yet, Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them, God and eidolons. And thee my... ...ns to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arou... ... rolling round. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 204 2 Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, Tha... ... it not been, I would not now be here, as I am, With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon, ... ...nners in a long stretch’d game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, e...

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... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ...olumella. In the time of Aristotle, it had not been much better in ancient Greece. Speaking of the ideal republic described in the laws of Plato, to m... ...ent order of people from the first inhabitants of the ancient republics of Greece and Italy. These last were composed chiefly of the proprietors of la... ...nd distinct as that which directed the estab- lishment of those of ancient Greece and Rome. All the different states of ancient Greece possessed, each... ...uch either the influence of the crown on the one hand, or the force of the democracy on the other. But if the number of American representatives were ... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...might be. It was, therefore, a matter near to Lady Lufton’s heart to see a new church built, and she was urgent in her eloquence both with her son and... ... were exactly suited to it; and everything was in good order;— not exactly new, so as to be raw and uncovered, and redo- lent of workmen; but just at ... ...o very highly of the vicar of Framley, that she does begrudge him to those politicians at Chaldicotes. ’ ‘But, Justinia, the bishop will be there, you... ...ourcy Castle. As for the Duke of Omnium, he, comparatively speaking, was a new man. And then he was a member of Parliament, a friend of some men in po... ...lls.’ And Mr Supplehouse rises from his chair with gleaming eyes. ‘Has not Greece as noble a son as him? Aye, and much nobler, traitor that he is. We ... ... who now hated the enemy with a hatred surpassing that of women—or even of politicians. The minor gods, it was thought, would con- gregate together in... ...tand against him with any chance of success. This threw him much among the politicians of his party—those giants, namely, who it would be his business... ...hy, as those powers existed in West Barsetshire,—and it may be added, that democracy would have very little to say to it, on one side or on the other....

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...ucation by John Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ........................................................... 353 5 John Dewey Democracy and Education by John Dewey Chapter One: Education as a Necessity... ...ne hand, there 7 John Dewey is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group —its future sole representatives— and the mat... ...bers who com- pose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rath... ...m the act—he gets food, etc. But the horse, pre- sumably, does not get any new interest. He remains in- terested in food, not in the service he is ren... ...ife, then the appliances become the positive resources of civilization. If Greece, with a scant tithe of our material resources, achieved a worthy and... ...ieved a worthy and noble intel- lectual and artistic career, it is because Greece operated for social ends such resources as it had. But whatever the ... ... social. It originated, so far as con- scious formulation is concerned, in Greece, and was based upon the fact that the truly human life was lived onl...

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...ying to clear his own mind upon the real meaning of that ambigu- ous word “democracy,” for which the League is to make the world “safe.” The bulk of t... ...his phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phr... ...ssible to retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independen... ...em also in America. Or else we have to call them Virginians, Californians, New Englanders, and so forth. Their legal and nominal separateness weighs n... ...ce how we on our side, professing as we do to act for democracies, to make democracy safe on the earth, and so on, intend to meet this new occasion. Y... ...nnot always look to the Americans to express our ideas and do our work for democracy. The foolery of the Berlin Treaty must not be repeated. We cannot... ...hose creations of the futurist imagination, the impe- rialism of Italy and Greece, which make such threatening 29 H.G. Wells gestures at the world of... ... the unfortunate Greek republicans, with her eyes on the Greek islands and Greece in Asia. Is it not time that these base imputations were repudiated ... ... reader here of the horrible vacillations and inconsistencies of policy in Greece that have prolonged the war and cost us wealth and lives beyond meas...

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...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...y the names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They co... ...southern influences. If we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands; in England and Scotland;... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ... this there has undoubtedly been treachery as well as rebellion. Had these politicians been honest—though the political growth of Washington has hardl... ...rage; I dislike votes by ballot; I dislike above all things the tyranny of democracy. But I do like the political feeling— for it is a political feeli... ...eople whom it most nearly concerns is very much. I am far from saying that democracy has failed in America. Democracy there has done great things for ... ...essity of smartness must be eschewed before a verdict in favor of American democracy can be pronounced. “It behoves a man to be smart, sir.” In those ...

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...Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extension of the Suffrage ..................................................................................................... ...

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...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...e government, what is meant by power? Not thews and sinews; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist. To mere muscul... ...ustrious class who are neither slaves nor slave owners (as was the case in Greece), they need, probably, no more to insure their improvement than to m... ... Oriental people, in that condition it continues to stagnate; but if, like Greece or Rome, it had realized any thing higher, through the energy, patri... ...n. The proofs of this are apparent in every page of our great historian of Greece; but we need scarcely look further than to the high quality of the a... ...merely to one knot of public men or another; where the idea entertained of democracy is merely that of opening offices to the competition of all inste... ..., as 62 Considerations on Representative Government in a pure monarchy or democracy. This is the portion of truth in the opinion of the ancients, rev...

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................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................... ...e experimen- talists in gliding one strong enough and light enough for the new purpose. And here we are! Or, rather, M. Blériot is! What does it mean ... ...g; there is no intellectual guide or stir in them; and to that we owe this new generation of nicely behaved, unenterprising sons, who play golf and do... ...as set quite another train of thought going in my mind. The age of natural democracy is surely at an end through these machines. There comes a time wh... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...ng Prince. Time will test these hopes, but certainly we, the innumer- able democracy of individually unimportant men, have felt the need for such a Pr... ...nt. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the Social Democracy. And it is just because we are all beginning to realise the immen... ...pose of improving style, “as the exact and beautiful languages of Rome and Greece.” Is it not time at least that this last, this favourite but thread-... ...ation more marked than in military and naval affairs. In the great days of Greece and Rome war was a special calling, requiring a special type of man....

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance...

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...uction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sis... ...he sub- sisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its o... ...e discovery of truth. Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be dis- tinguished the ... ... be wise, it would, nevertheless, be natural. The history of the states of Greece, and of other countries, abounds with such instances, and it is not ... ..., stimulated by private pique against the Megarensians,* another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threat- ened as an acco... ... out of the contentions which so often distracted the ancient republics of Greece? Different answers, equally satisfactory, may be given to this quest... ...mes needful. From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citize... ...ich we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the effi... ...t must derive from the Union. The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in t...

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...oversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new condition...

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...self recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the re... ...civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment. ... ...ions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subj... ...ers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a nec essarily antagonistic position to the people whom th... ... of government would never be abused to their disadvantage. By degrees, this new demand for elective and temporary rulers became the prominent object ... ...Eu ropean society to whose real or supposed interests On Liberty — Mill 6 democracy is adverse, has had no difficulty in es tablishing itself; and... ...ps each within the limits of reason and sanity. Unless opinions favorable to democracy and to aristocracy, to property and to equality, to co operatio... ... government of mediocrity from being mediocre government. No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in t... ... that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non conformity—any...

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...o Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke’s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular his tory, except school abridgme... ...r’s African Memoranda , and Collins’s Account of the First Settlement of New South W ales . T wo books which I never wearied of reading were Anson’s... ...o be my strongest predilection, and most of all ancient history. Mitford’s Greece I read con tinually; my father had put me on my guard against the T... ...ent, have argued the point against him: yet this did not diminish the ever new pleasure with which I read the book. Roman his tory, both in my old fa... ... I read the manuscript to him while he corrected the proofs. The number of new ideas which I received from this remarkable book, and the im pulse and... ... Stuart Mill Revolution. I learnt with astonishment that the principles of democracy, then apparently in so insignificant and hopeless a minority ever... ... all the time he could spare be ing already taken up with his History of Greece . The article he wrote was on his own subject, and was a very comple... ...r any of the phrases, more or less significant, by which, up to that time, democracy had usually been defended, but as the most essential of “securiti... ...rnment as a scientific theory; though I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle, and regarded it as a question of time, ...