[Linuxargentina-general] value of these things, for I know human

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To people of their degree; and in these pretty clothes, she crying on
his shoulder, and he trying to comfort her with hopeful words set to the
music of despair, they went from the judgment seat out into the world
homeless, bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the roadsides
were not so poor as they. Well, the king was out of the hole; and on
terms satisfactory to the Church and the rest of the aristocracy, no
doubt. Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of
monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a State has a
vote, brutal laws are impossible. Arthur's people were of course poor
material for a republic, because they had been debased so long by
monarchy; and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make
short work of that law which the king had just been administering if it
had been submitted to their full and free vote. There is a phrase which
has grown so common in the world's mouth that it has come to seem to
have sense and meaning--the sense and meaning implied when it is used;
that is the phrase which refers to this or that or the other nation as
possibly being "capable of self-government"; and the implied sense of it
is, that there has been a nation somewhere, some time or other which
_wasn't_ capable of it--wasn't as able to govern itself as some
self-appointed specialists were or would be to govern it. The master
minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude
from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only--not
from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the nation's
intellectual grade was; whether high or low, the bulk of its ability was
in the long ranks of its nameless and its poor, and so it never saw the
day that it had not the material in abundance whereby to govern itself.
Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best
governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the
best condition attainable by its people; and that the same is true of
kindred governments of lower grades, all the way down to the lowest.
King Arthur had hurried up the army business altogether beyond my
calculations. I had not sup
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