Industrial Ideals (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Victor Gollancz

9780260420008: Industrial Ideals (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 026042000X ISBN 13: 9780260420008

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Excerpt from Industrial Ideals

It is no part of our purpose to consider for their own sake general theories of society and government. But it is necessary at the outset to make reference to one of them, as it will be necessary on occasion again where otherwise the industrial solution under discussion would not be completely intelligible. With the ordinary democratic theory we are familiar enough; but it is only in the government of subject races that Englishmen of this generation come face to face with the paternal or authoritarian ideal. Yet this ideal is clearly no less applicable to the internal government of a single country than to the government of dependencies by an Imperial Power. Instead of a whole people governing itself through a Parliament elected under a system of more or less universal suffrage, we might have two distinct classes, the governing and the governed - the former understanding, by reason of their superior education, wherein the latter's true interests consist, and having the good-will to act accordingly.

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