Capitolo 34
ills of the body politic, the complications on which you/they surround us each
side,--for this it is said that the infallible panacea lies in universal,
suffrage of which remedy that immediately and clearly it is you/he/she has laughed out
court if you/he/she is suggested in case of the simplest ills of the meat.
This, I submit, it is demonstration. The true remedy won't be looked for in
that direction in the case of the one some more than the other.
There is a considerable element of the truth, although possibly a not
inconsiderable of the exaggeration, in this affirmation from a paper me
it happened above recently in the problem of the sober one and classical _Edinburgh
Review_ for October last,--one paper entitled her/it "Democracy and
Liberalism":--"History clearly testifies and unanimously the
passion of the democracies for the incompetence. There is no anything the democracy
antipathies and suspicious so of heart as technical efficiency, particularly
when it is independent from the popular vote." But to-day, what is
politically proposed by our senatorial charlatans and the acrobats of
the market-place? The Referendum, the continuous and easy Call the
Eternal initiative is deafened in our ears as the panaceas of
every sick of the body politic. On the contrary one, I submit, that, while in
the absence of some best method as he/she anchors it conceived and it accepted, the
trial to come to resulted by an account of the "majority said by the
head" of the citizens introduces then and voting has certain political
advantages, still for all this as a scientific end, political
lines, are unworthy of the consideration. A passing convenient, it in no
degree reflects credit on intelligence of twentieth-century.
And I now come to the cross of my discussion. Resulted so refusing
now joint to the ball as in practical use, a consultation is already in the
chins of those that you/they listen. Immediately suggesting flung and it in mine
affronts, have asked as a political poser, and not without a sneer,--what
other or better me has propose? I recommend a return to old and