ABSTRACT
It is because the rulers, if they are bad, are so not necessarily or wholly by reason of birth, but largely because of their environment, that I have hopes of altering their courses. It is perfectly true . . . that the rulers cannot alter the course themselves. If they are dominated by their environment, they do not surely deserve to be killed, but should be changed. But the environment are we-the people who make the rulers what they are. They are thus an exaggerated edition of what we are in the aggregate. If my argument is sound, any violence done to rulers would be violence done to ourselves.
