Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political And Legal ..., volume 14
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political And Legal ..., volume 14
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Of all the publicists who have reflected on contemporary De- mocracy, Mr. Godkin was perhaps the most informed, as he was certainly the most moderate. He neither holds with the optimist that there are short cuts to political happiness, nor with the pessi- mist that democracy is unteachable. '^Experience counts with it for less than it used to count for under the old aristocratic gov- ernments;" but its own experience will in the end be its school- master. The main purpose of these Essays, howev...er, is not so much to describe democracy as to "describe some of the departures it has made from the ways which its earlier promoters expected it to follow." But as Mill suggested in the case of de Tocqueville, Mr. Godkin is perhaps too much inclined to attribute to the effects of democracy what are really the effects of civilization, and this in spite of his own caution against "giving only one cause for political effects." The "uniform failure to predict what democracy will say, or do, or think, under certain given circumstances," he says in one place, is "owing largely to the enormously increased number of influences under which all men act in the modem world ;" and among these influences he assigns a first place to the "enormously increased facility for money-making which the mod- em world has supplied, and the inevitably resulting corruption." But that phenomenon, as Mr.
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Of all the publicists who have reflected on contemporary De- mocracy, Mr. Godkin was perhaps the most informed, as he was certainly the most moderate. He neither holds with the optimist that there are short cuts to political happiness, nor with the pessi- mist that democracy is unteachable. '^Experience counts with it for less than it used to count for under the old aristocratic gov- ernments;" but its own experience will in the end be its school- master. The main purpose of these Essays, howev...er, is not so much to describe democracy as to "describe some of the departures it has made from the ways which its earlier promoters expected it to follow." But as Mill suggested in the case of de Tocqueville, Mr. Godkin is perhaps too much inclined to attribute to the effects of democracy what are really the effects of civilization, and this in spite of his own caution against "giving only one cause for political effects." The "uniform failure to predict what democracy will say, or do, or think, under certain given circumstances," he says in one place, is "owing largely to the enormously increased number of influences under which all men act in the modem world ;" and among these influences he assigns a first place to the "enormously increased facility for money-making which the mod- em world has supplied, and the inevitably resulting corruption." But that phenomenon, as Mr.
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