The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary abs…

Walt Whitman
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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures ✨ Walt Whitman (2003). The Portable Walt Whitman, p.409, Penguin
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