. Roundup. stand orfall on its own merits as others havedone before it. For there is no trick ofperpetual motion in politics any more than inmechanics. President Lincoln defined democracyto be the government of the people by the peoplefor the people. This is a sufficiently compactstatement of it as a political arrangement. Theo-dore Parker said that Democracy meant not Tmas good as you are, but Youre as good as I am. And this is the ethical conception of it, necessaryas a complement of the other; a conception whichcould it be made actual and practical, would easilysolve all the riddles that th
. Roundup. stand orfall on its own merits as others havedone before it. For there is no trick ofperpetual motion in politics any more than inmechanics. President Lincoln defined democracyto be the government of the people by the peoplefor the people. This is a sufficiently compactstatement of it as a political arrangement. Theo-dore Parker said that Democracy meant not Tmas good as you are, but Youre as good as I am. And this is the ethical conception of it, necessaryas a complement of the other; a conception whichcould it be made actual and practical, would easilysolve all the riddles that the old sphinx of politicaland social economy who sits by the roadside hasbeen proposing to mankind from the beginning, andwhich mankind have shown such a singular talentfor answering wrongly. But that is idealism, you will say, and this is anonly too practical world. I grant it; but I am oneof those who believe that the real will never find anirremovable basis till it rests on the ideal.—
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