The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1901) - ISBN: 9781465534071