This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... unspoken claims. Plato's ideal republic was the city of the cultured few supported upon the uncultured many, no more to be called to the agora than the cattle from their sheds. Our modern democracy takes every man by the hand because he is a man--by and by it will take the woman because she also is a man--and clothes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... unspoken claims. Plato's ideal republic was the city of the cultured few supported upon the uncultured many, no more to be called to the agora than the cattle from their sheds. Our modern democracy takes every man by the hand because he is a man--by and by it will take the woman because she also is a man--and clothes him with the kingly power of government. It knows no distinction of class or condition or race, as it will know none of sex, but seeks the government of the people, by the people for the people. Whence comes this, but from the working of that soul of free, equal human rights, which, however smothered by kings and priests and aristocrats of blood or purse, still throbs in the society which first in history dared set up a commonwealth wherein no caste should sever men, no privilege distinguish men; where rich and poor should sit down at one board as brethren, and the workingman vote with the nobleman for the officers of their common organization, and be equally eligible with him to its highest places. The Christian Republic has been the inspiration of democracy. The kingdom of the Carpenter's Son has enfranchised all men. His Spirit stirs still in our enthusiasm for human rights. In the action of the State, as in its constitution, the same expression is making itself felt. Law is seeking impartial, universal justice. It is no longer caring only for the great, the rich, the fortunate few; it is spreading its aegis over the feeble, the poor, the unfortunate many. The history of legislation shows a steady extension of governmental watch and ward over the dependent classes, regulating trade and manufactures, looking after the rights of women and children, caring for all sorts and conditions of men. It is waging the war of Sir Artegall against every ...
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