The false assumptions of "democracy"Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
The false assumptions of "democracy"
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Democracy; Great Britain -- Social conditions; Social problems
Culture, a common, produces a common tongue, 11;
might be saved by a re-definition of words, 26.
David, his moral insistence on justice, 47, 48.
Decline, means retrograde development, 34.
Definition, of words desirable, 21;
and might avert revolution, 25, 26.
Degenerates, hate Life as she is, 59.
Democratic institutions, put a damper on superiority, 174, 203.
De Quincey, on poetry, 83. [p218]
Despondency, prevalent to-day, 153;
national, leads to social unrest, 156;
not due to a material cause alone, 157;
but to a lack of satisfying ideals, 158, 159, 161;
the only cure for, new values and a new faith, 161;
economic changes cannot cure, 163;
due to false values, 173;
cannot be cured by social reform, 177.
Development, the law of higher life, 33, 34.
Disease, European attitude of toleration towards, totally wrong, 173.
Disraeli, his speech on the Compensation for Disturbance Bill, 95.
Education, failure of modern, 123;
the object of State, the rearing of worthy citizens, 126;
should be a training in manners rather than in the acquisition of
facts, 127, 128;
elementary, does not teach sound views about Life and Humanity,
129-131;
does not even succeed in teaching means of intercourse, 131;
importance of knowledge of native tongue in, 132;
elementary, an expensive farce, 143.
Education Act of 1870, introduced cheap literature, 15.
Emigration, the violence of, 107.
English, importance of teaching, 145;
better teachers wanted for, 146.
Equality, quite meaningless to-day, 24;
the cry of, can provoke real emotion, 61;
originally borrowed from mathematics, 62;
and has no meaning except in mathematics, 65, 76;
of opportunity, the fallacy of, 67-71;
not desired by the beautiful, able or desirable, 72;
a powerful weapon in the hands of the discontented, 73;
due to indolence and a belief in Justice, 74;
had a definite meaning at the end of the 18th century, 75;
a decoy cry when superiority is extinct, 210.
Errors, do not right themselves, 194.
Eugenists, their moral interpretation of phenomena, 47, 48.
Fatalism, the, of modern Europe, 95.
Feminism, has broken valuable domestic traditions, 192 _n_.
Food, inferior, purveyed to the masses, 123;
ill-prepared, at bottom of physiological causes of ill-health and
social unrest, 188, 189, 190, 194, 197;
unscrupulous advertisements of commercial, 188, 189;
suggested reforms in, 195;
question of, should lead to discouragement of urban development,
212.
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