Democracy And The Human Equation Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from America and World Democracy Probably before the close of the twentieth cen tury all thoughtful people will recognize that the United States, of all nations, exercised the deep est political infiuence upon the human race during the nineteenth century. Down to the opening of that century the civilized world did not believe in a government of the people. With the excep tion of a few' Christians, most of whom had been driven to distant lands by their refusal to submit to tyranny, the Church, down to 1800, united with the State in upholdingthe divine right of kings. Coming events which now seem probable, if not inevitable, will show that democracy is slowly winning the victory over the human-race. That democracy has been slowly winning its way dur ing the past half-century is shown in the advance of parliamentary institutions in every country in Europe, in Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, in South Africa; in the fact that every British colony left free to create its own political institutions has adopted a written constitution modeled after the American. Prototype; in the struggle for the right of existence upon the part. Of the Russian Duma and the Chinese Parlia ment; in the maintenance of a Japanese Parlia ment, even though divine prerogatives are claimed for.the emperor; in the nascent and victorious struggle of women for the admission of the1r half of the race - by no means the weaker in in sight or in morals - to large influence in shapmg the institutions under which women as well as men must live; and, above all in the present war, which we may all hope is the death grapple of autocracy with democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.