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
Freedom, Rousseau’s misunderstanding of, 17;
now meaningless, 21, 23;
but provokes wild enthusiasm, 22;
Rousseau’s idea of, 22;
a wildly fantastic idea, 77;
babies have no, to choose their destiny, 78;
a will o’ the wisp in manhood, 80;
nonexistent even in childhood, 81;
strength has no, 83-85;
the cry of the weak, 84, 85;
the only circumstances when it can have any meaning, 86-89, 92, 94;
the frequency of these circumstances, 88;
real, greater under the Tudors than new, 90;
political, a deception, 90-92.
Gambetta, his “_justice immanente_,” 44, 45, 182;
a sentimentalist, 57.
Gissing, George, on the comparative happiness of the poor, 169.
Happiness, is relative, 169;
has little to do with material conditions, 170, 172.
Humanitarianism, an inverted form of cruelty, 174. [p219]
Ideals, lack of satisfying, leads to social unrest, 158, 159, 161;
loss of, makes words connected with them meaningless, 160;
tyranny of, the most powerful, 179, 180, 183.
Ill-health, Lloyd George on national, 186, 204;
a fundamental cause of social unrest, 187, 188, 194;
great in rural districts owing to bad food, 189;
an inevitable static condition of the masses, 191.
Indolence, may avert disaster in England but not on the Continent, 24;
demands equality, 74.
Industrialism, creates besotting occupations, 89.
Institutions, often outlive the quality of men, 199-202.
Japan, suicide in, 175.
Jefferson, imbibed much nonsense from France, 61 _n_;
a disciple of Condorcet, 67.
Journalism, a cause of present day muddle, 15;
makes catachresis the rule, 16.
Justice, quite meaningless to-day, 24;
necessary for belief in equality, 44, 74;
the abstraction of a moralist, 45;
Gambetta’s _justice immanente_, 44, 45, 182;
modern idea of, 46;
and its moral basis, 46-50;
meaningless when applied to the universe, 52;
unknown outside human society, 53, 54;
a myth, 57, 58;
reign of, a visionary ideal, 181.
Labour, dissatisfaction of, 155.
Language, confusion of, leads to revolution, 14, 15, 17;
and to impossibility to lead or be led, 15;
disease of, everywhere rampant, 25;
importance of understanding one’s own, 133, 134;
a knowledge of, the only means of curbing the press, 136;
the English, should be chief subject in State schools, 137, 140.
Liberty, quite meaningless to-day, 24.
Life, has a descending tendency, 33;
development the law of higher, 33;
hopelessly unjust and unmoral, 51-53;
as she is, hated by degenerates, 59;
the enjoyment of, largely æsthetic, 117;
inequality necessary to the charm of, 118;
itself attacked by the Socialist, 119.
Lloyd George, on national ill-health, 186.
Locke, John, put learning last in education, 127 _n_.
Love, cannot be produced by word of command, 175, 176.
Luther, a slave to his own strength, 83.
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