Direct Legislation by the People (Classic Reprint)

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Mr. Kirkup, in his Inquiry into Social ism, after Observing that the decisive fact in the social development of modern times is the growth Of democracy, adds: This de mocracy, as we are all aware, is being formed and moulded under a set of conditions which are a new thing in the history of the world. Since 1848, it has received political power, and it has begun to pass through the elementary school in all lands. Besides being drilled into industrial armies in the large factory and rail way system, it forms the vast national armies of the new military system. In a word, the school, the press, the new industrial system, and the new military system have all combined to instruct and organize the modern democ racy, and thus to create a colossal force, which has already begun to take a considerable part in the affairs Of men. In the gigantic electoral contests which continually occur in every civil ized country, in the great labor struggles which never cease, this democracy is coming to know its strength.

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