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Woodrow Wilson: Not only printing and steam and electricity have gotten hold of us to expand our English civilization, but also those…

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Not only printing and steam and electricity have gotten hold of us to expand our English civilization, but also those general, and yet to us alien, forces of democracy of which mention has already been made; and these are apt to tell disastrously upon our Saxon habits in government.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson warns that technological and democratic forces from Europe could negatively impact traditional American governance practices.

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