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As Walter Lipp- mann put it in an early book, it is these things that "breed the
poisons of self-government." Men must be assured of life before they respond to
the claims of the "good life." Democracy means little to them unless it first gives
them ...
As Walter Lipp- mann put it in an early book, it is these things that "breed the
poisons of self-government." Men must be assured of life before they respond to
the claims of the "good life." Democracy means little to them unless it first gives
them ...
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Type One: the aristocracy of the breed. The generic presumption is that men are
of different clay, that by nature some men are born to rule and some to be ruled. (
a) The nobility versus the commonalty. The old doctrine of aristocracy was a ...
Type One: the aristocracy of the breed. The generic presumption is that men are
of different clay, that by nature some men are born to rule and some to be ruled. (
a) The nobility versus the commonalty. The old doctrine of aristocracy was a ...
Page 132
PAGE (b) The superior race versus the lesser breeds. The racialist doctrine has
several varieties. It is the doctrine that justified slavery and it is still the doctrine
that justifies the discrimination and the segregation to which the Negro and more
...
PAGE (b) The superior race versus the lesser breeds. The racialist doctrine has
several varieties. It is the doctrine that justified slavery and it is still the doctrine
that justifies the discrimination and the segregation to which the Negro and more
...
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| Title | The ramparts we guard |
| Author | Robert Morrison MacIver |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 152 pages |
| Subjects | Democracy |
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