Democracy Is That Which Affords A Rule

We Have Learned To Say That The Good Must Be Extended To All Of Society Before It Can Be Held Secure By Any One Person Or Any One Class. But We Have Not Yet Learned To Add To That Statement, That Unless All [people] And All Classes Contribute To A Good, We Cannot Even Be Sure That It Is Worth Having.

The Cheap Drama Brings Cause And Effect, Will Power And Action, Once More Into Relation And Gives A Man The Thrilling Conviction That He May Yet Be Master Of His Fate.

This Dream That Men Shall Cease To Waste Strength In Competition And Shall Come To Pool Their Powers Of Production Is Coming To Pass All Over The Earth.

I Am Not One Of Those Who Believe - Broadly Speaking - That Women Are Better Than Men. We Have Not Wrecked Railroads, Nor Corrupted Legislatures, Nor Done Many Unholy Things That Men Have Done; But Then We Must Remember That We Have Not Had The Chance.

But The Paradox Is Here: When Cultivated People Do Stay Away From A Certain Portion Of The Population, When All Social Advantages Are Persistently Withheld, It May Be For Years, The Result Itself Is Pointed To As A Reason And Is Used As An Argument For The Continued Withholding.