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Mencken, H. L.; H. L. Mencken

 
9781406741360: Notes on Democracy
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ISBN 10: 1406741361 ISBN 13: 9781406741360
Editorial: Holmes Press, 2007

Sinopsis

Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rousseau’s noble savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Editorial
Holmes Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1406741361
ISBN 13 
9781406741360
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Número de páginas
228
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