Excerpt from Democracy and Empire the Applicability of the Dictum That a Democracy Cannot, Manage an Empire (Thucydides, Ch 37, Jowetts Translation) To the Present Conditions and Future Problems of the British Empire, Especially the Question of the Future of India

Indeed the events of the last two years have shown that it is not so much a democracy as an oligarchy which is incapable of understand ing Imperial problems and of applying the proper solution. The democracy is sound and is slowly but surely eliminating from its mind the insidious poison instilled during years of demagogic tutelage.

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