Remove publicity and its checks, then all the mean motives of mankind—their malice, petty rivalries, pique, the prejudices that men would be ashamed to put into words even to themselves—skulk to the polling booth under a disguising cloak.
Here, Morley argues that removing public scrutiny from voting allows negative human traits to influence electoral decisions.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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