Democracy
Sir, —The recent correspondence on the meaning of democracy leads to my sending the following:— “It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledge the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy. We had seen little men artificially held up in high places, and great men artificially held down in low places, and our own justice-loving hearts abhorred this violence to human nature. Therefore, we decreed that every man should thenceforth have equal liberty to find his own level. By this very decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, ‘Let the best man win, whoever he is.’ Let the best man win! That is America’s word. That is true democracy. And true democracj’ and true aristocracy are one and the same thing. If anybody cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight.” (“The Virginian”: Owen Wister.) —I am, etc.. JOHN BROWN, Wellington, December 23.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 77, 23 December 1939, Page 13
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