Abstract

Political Equality

The article presents information on political equality. One holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men arc created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This famous Declaration was called in question, treated as a sophism, declared to be a self-evident falsehood. One had among people an institution whose spirit was in direct antagonism. But this was neither the only nor the main cause of the political change. Men get tired of truisms, though such are oftenest the most valuable of truths. Plain republicanism began to look homely. All this, however, might have been withstood. Even slavery might have been righteously surmounted, as the ancestors hoped, had there not arisen among people a sham conservatism and a sham democracy. Powerful writers arose in England who became the idolized authorities of the young men. These had themselves been the offspring of a similar reaction.