Notes on Democracy

Notes on Democracy
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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 9781446547946
ISBN-13 : 1446547949
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Book Synopsis Notes on Democracy by : H. L. Mencken

Download or read book Notes on Democracy written by H. L. Mencken and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rousseau’s noble savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities.


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