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Democracy versus the Melting-Pot
February 18, 1915 issue

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There is hardly room to doubt that eminent gentlemen over whose signatures the orotund synthesis of the social and political philosophy of the eighteenth century appears conceived that they were subscribing to anything but the dull and sober truth when they underwrote the doctrine that God had created all men equal and had endowed them with certain inalienable rights, among these being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That this doctrine did not describe a condition, that it even contradicted conditions, that many or the signatories owned other men and bought and sold them, that many were eminent by birth, many by wealth, and only a low by merit, all this is acknowledged.

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DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL doctrines; POLITICAL science -- Philosophy; SOCIAL sciences -- Philosophy; EQUALITY; HAPPINESS
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