The following are extracts from a new book of essays, "The New Society," by Dr. Walter Rathe-nan, published by Williams Norgate at 6s, -Only in the hands of a political people does democracy mean the rule of tke people; in those of an untrained and unpolitical people it becomes merely an affair of debating societies and philistine chatter at tke inn ordinary.
ne capacity for collective sagacity and strength of will demands from the individual merely a dry intelligence in human affairs and egoism.
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