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... democracy , but of its fundamental principles , which if it violates , it ceases to be . Democracy is a debased and ambiguous word today , when the spokesmen of totalitarian Russia make their monstrous claim that their society is a ...
... democracy , but of its fundamental principles , which if it violates , it ceases to be . Democracy is a debased and ambiguous word today , when the spokesmen of totalitarian Russia make their monstrous claim that their society is a ...
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... Democracy of true and generous mating between mentally , morally and physically developed men and women . Indeed , Whitman not only anticipated Shaw's doctrine of the necessity of the Superman for viable Democracy when he inveighed ...
... Democracy of true and generous mating between mentally , morally and physically developed men and women . Indeed , Whitman not only anticipated Shaw's doctrine of the necessity of the Superman for viable Democracy when he inveighed ...
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... Democracy purports to be grounded , is a reality only when it is pursued to its religious recesses in an ultimate and immediate self - knowledge of what he calls ' the identified soul ' . It is notable how close Whitman quite ...
... Democracy purports to be grounded , is a reality only when it is pursued to its religious recesses in an ultimate and immediate self - knowledge of what he calls ' the identified soul ' . It is notable how close Whitman quite ...
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