In these days, when representative government has degenerated into government by a fleeting public opinion, the price we pay for such government by, for and of the Press, is too often the inability of representatives to do what they deem wise and just.
Beck critiques the influence of public opinion on representative government and the press's role in it.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
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