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Surely that is not a very ripe idea of democracy.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgSurely that is not a very ripe idea of democracy.
Morley critiques the understanding of democracy in the context of governance.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.