NotesOnDemocracy

NOTES ON DEMOCRACY By H. L. Mencken P UBLISHED AT THE B ORZOI N EW Y ORK B Y A LFRED A . K NOPF 1926 Contents I. DEMOCRATIC MAN 1. His Appearance in the World 2. Varieties of Homo Sapiens 3. The New Psychology 4. Politics Under Democracy 5. The Rôle of the Hormones 6. Envy as a Philosophy 7. Liberty and Democratic Man 8. The Effects Upon Progress 9. The Eternal Mob II. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE 1. The Two Kinds of Democracy 2. The Popular Will 3. Disproportional Representation 4. The Politician Under Democracy 5. Utopia 6. The Occasional Exception 7. The Maker of Laws 8. The Rewards of Virtue 9. Footnote on Lame Ducks III. DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY 1. The Will to Peace 2. The Democrat as Moralist 3. Where Puritanism Fails 4. Corruption Under Democracy IV. CODA 1. The Future of Democracy 2. Last Words DEMOCRATIC MAN I 1. His Appearance in the World Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below; there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs—in b......