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DEMOCRACY
By H. L. MENCKEN
PUBLISHED AT THE BORZOI • NEW YORK • BY
ALFRED • A • KNOPF
COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
Manufactured in the United States of America
CONTENTS
| I. Democratic Man | ||
| 1. | His Appearance in the World | 3 |
| 2. | Varies of Homo Sapiens | 9 |
| 3. | The New Psychology | 15 |
| 4. | Politics Under Democracy | 22 |
| 5. | The Rôle of the Hormones | 28 |
| 6. | Envy as a Philosophy | 35 |
| 7. | Liberty and Democratic Man | 43 |
| 8. | The Effects Upon Progress | 51 |
| 9. | The Eternal Mob | 64 |
| II. The Democratic State | ||
| 1. | The Two Kinds of Democracy | 71 |
| 2. | The Popular Will | 77 |
| 3. | Disproportional Representation | 88 |
| 4. | The Politician Under Democracy | 99 |
| 5. | Utopia | 106 |
| 6. | The Occasional Exception | 115 |
| 7. | The Maker of Laws | 122 |
| 8. | The Rewards of Virtue | 129 |
| 9. | Footnote on Lame Ducks | 138 |
| III. Democracy and Liberty | ||
| 1. | The Will to Peace | 147 |
| 2. | The Democrat as Moralist | 152 |
| 3. | Where Puritanism Fails | 166 |
| 4. | Corruption Under Democracy | 176 |
| IV. Coda | ||
| 1. | The Future of Democracy | 195 |
| 2. | Last Words | 206 |
| A Note on the Type (not in original TOC) | ||
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