Democracy: An Address Delivered in the Town Hall, BirminghamRiverside Press, 1902 - 75 ページ |
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affairs America ance assembly believe Birmingham bler brain Burghers called centuries certainly chief end citizens civil clever compulsion conceptions conservative Constitution contriv conviction culture danger democracy democratic desires and wants disease door ductile ence England English enormous evil existing order experience favorable fore French germ give habit hands HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hopes and opinions HOUGHTON human nature humor ical impulse inclined inevitable instincts James Russell Lowell knocked leaven less lived mankind Massachusetts mocracy morals Napo nation native ness never Old World Peasants perhaps persons political and social political economy popular government prac practical pression prudent question race respect seems seen sense sentiment society sometimes speaking stitution sure syllogism tain thing to hold tical tion told true truth universal suffrage virtue voice asked want of thought wealth Wilson King wise wiser wrong
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48 ページ - A king lived long ago, In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now ; And the king's locks curled, Disparting o'er a forehead full As the milk-white space 'twixt horn and horn Of some sacrificial bull — Only calm as a babe new-born : For he was got to a sleepy mood, So safe from all decrepitude...
69 ページ - George and to prove him mistaken in his political economy. I do not believe that land should be divided because the quantity of it is limited by nature. Of what may this not be said ? A fortiori, we might on the same principle insist on a division of human wit, for I have observed that the quantity of this has been even more inconveniently limited. Mr. George himself has an inequitably large share of it. But he is right in his impelling motive ; right, also, I am convinced, in insisting that humanity...
72 ページ - Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. The world has outlived much, and will outlive a great deal more, and men have contrived to be happy in- it. It has shown the strength of its constitution in nothing more than in surviving the quack medicines it has tried. In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies,...
37 ページ - But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past. They were not seduced by the French fallacy that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a l1v^w suit of flesh and skin.
21 ページ - People are continually saying that America is in the air, and I am glad to think it is, since this means only that a clearer conception of human claims and human duties is beginning to be prevalent. The discontent with the existing order of things, however, pervaded the atmosphere wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America. I say wherever the conditions were favorable, for it is certain that the...
28 ページ - If he could, he woidd show us an age of stagnation. The question for us, as it has been for all before us, is to make the transition gradual and easy, to see that our points are right so that the train may not come to grief. For we should remember that nothing is more natural for people whose education has been neglected...
62 ページ - la carriere ouverte aux talents " — a clear pathway for merit of whatever kind. I should be inclined to paraphrase this by calling democracy that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man had a chance and knew that he had it.
38 ページ - ... creed. The day of sentiment was over, and no dithyrambic affirmations or fine-drawn analyses of the Rights of Man would serve their present turn. This was a practical question, and they addressed themselves to it as men of knowledge and judgment should. Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of...
16 ページ - Below the Peasants, it should be remembered, was still another even more helpless class, the servile farm-laborers. The same witness informs us that of the extraordinary imposts the Peasants paid nearly twice as much in - proportion to their estimated property as the Barons, Nobles, and Burghers together. Moreover, the upper classes were assessed at their own valuation, while they arbitrarily fixed that of the Peasants, who had no voice.
30 ページ - But I believe that the real gravamen of the charges lies in the habit it has of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the Powers that Be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be.