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Excerpt from The Will of the People
The world at large seems now more disposed than ever before to enter into an examination of the democratic form of government with a View to practice.
Many of the advantages of democracy are quite obvious. It is agreeable to the mind of man to conceive that he is governing himself. It adds a good deal of dignity to the part he plays in the world. He is, in truth, at length conceded to be a rational animal who may be entrusted with his own control. Surely there can be no disputing that democracy is the most ?attering to the in dividual intelligence of any of the systems de vised for the regulation of man in society.
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