Our city governments are, in many instances, foul cancers on the body politic; and for us to boast of having solved the problem of local self-government is as fatuous as for a strong man to exult in his health when his body is covered with running sores.
Beck uses a vivid metaphor to describe the failures of local self-government.
Share
More from James Beck
Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
Beck lectures on this subject to us, our interest and our sympathy are redoubled by the thought that whatever differences there may be between the Old World and the New, citizens of the United States and ourselves are the Sons of a Common…
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Plato records a saying of Socrates that the dog is a true philosopher because philosophy is love of knowledge, and a dog, while growling at strangers, always welcomes the friends that he knows.
Other voices in this conversation
