Notes On Democracy - Softcover

Mencken, H.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406741361 ISBN 13: 9781406741360

Publisher: Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rousseau's noble savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Read Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406741361
• ISBN 13: 9781406741360
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228