Capitolo 46
see him/it; I have space neither time, and it owe, therefore, the necessities
satisfy with the "suggestions" of Paracelsus. I will say only me that as
a consequence this practically circumscribed system of majority disfranchises the
more intelligent and the more disinterested, the most individual and
independent of every constituency. It reduces their influence, and
negative their action. It operates everywhere in as way. My
field of observation has been at home, here in America; but you/he/she has been
the same in France. For example, while it was preparing this address I came
through the following in that more respectable sheet, the London
_Athenaum_. A very competent French was there criticising a recent
book entitled the "Idealism in France." Reference was from him done to that that,
in France, it is known as the "_scrutin of arrondissement, "_ or, in other
words, the district systematizes representative. The critic declares that this
system has created a car of party that has brought there the country
under the hesitation of a kind of Tammany Radicale-socialista and border
together the elector and the deputy from a tie of the mutual corruption, the
candidate promising favors of Government to the elector in return for his
votes and the elector that it sustains the candidate that promises more. From now
a policy in which the ideas and ideals are forgotten for personnel and place
affairs as every conflicts of candidate to outbid his/her competitors in the gifts
what he proposes to his/her costituents. From now, finally, a general diminution
in the tone of politics of French house, every being of question did,
beneficial from the deputies to that of their reelection."
I would respectfully ask if the above of it doesn't apply word for word
to the condition of business with which we am familiarized in America.
But it did here again me you quote a concrete case, still fresh in memory;
nothing in abstract discussion so a lot of it says. Takes the slow Carls
Schurz. If there was a man in life public ours since 1865 who showed a