"Forever extending its base, "It suffices to give the the new Democracy now aspires populace self-government for a to universal suffrage. By this short period for this populace means, _the political power to become a disorganised would be shattered into a rabble.... Is it possible for number of infinitesimal bits, the mass to discriminate of which each citizen acquires quietly and without jealousies a single one_. What will he do to administer the affairs of with it then; how will he State? Can they be a defence employ it?... _Each vote against a foreign foe? This is representing an inconsiderable impossible, _as a plan broken fragment of power, by itself up into as many parts as there signifies nothing_.... The are minds in the mass loses extension of the right to its value, and therefore participate in elections is becomes unintelligible and regarded as progress, and as unworkable_. Alone an autocrat the conquest of freedom by can conceive vast plans democratic theorists who hold clearly, assigning its proper that the more numerous the part to everything in the participants in political mechanism of the machine of rights, the greater is the State. Hence we conclude that probability that all will it is expedient for the employ this right in the welfare of the country that interests of the public the Government of the same welfare. Experience proves a should be in the hands of one very different thing. The responsible person. Without history of mankind bears absolute despotism witness that the most civilisation cannot exist, for necessary and fruitful reforms civilisation is capable of emanated from the supreme will being promoted only under the of statesmen or from a protection of the ruler, minority enlightened by lofty whoever he may be, and not at ideas and deep knowledge, and the hands of the masses".[45] that, on the contrary, the extension of the representative principle is accompanied by an abasement of political ideas".[44]