Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from John Stuart Mill
There are persons to whose mental eyes democracy best presents, itself as a great quasi -religious service. Such are Whitman, Car penter and their followers. The conception lends itself to criticism because to attain good government it is highly undesirable that all the governed should worship at the same shrine; dissent is the very life-blood of harmony in things political. There are other persons, such as Mr. Asquith, for whom democracy is a limited liability affair, with an undistinguished coat of arms, bearing for its device a registra tion official, couchant, except in the first fortnight of july. Both these conceptions are sincerely held by a large number of excellent people, who firmly believe that the sovereign power resides in the people, and that it is desirable that it should continue to reside there.
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