ABSTRACT
The triumphs of democracy are those which it has gained by facilitating the course and adopting the principles of government by natural selection. Democracy, to use a new phrase, goes one better, and declares that election creates superiority. One of the prevailing sentiments in a typical democracy is the fear of individual greatness. The more enlightened democracy of the present day may perhaps be expected to approach their task with a wisdom which has been deepened by historical experience. Democracy in other countries is opposed to the principle of government by the fittest in consequence of its jealousy of political talent, and its careful cultivation of the belief that one man is as good as another for the purpose of national administration. The highest function of democracy is to increase the intelligence and the honesty of the all-watchful care of the controlling power of Parliament.
