The book Civilization & Progress: By John Beattie Crozier was written by author Crozier, John Beattie, 1849-1921 Here you can read free online of Civilization & Progress: By John Beattie Crozier book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Civilization & Progress: By John Beattie Crozier a good or bad book?
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Under 316 , '" GOVEBNMENT. these circumstances, that Borne, in spite of her hatred of kings and her love of republican forms, should fall into despotism, was inevitable. But America has other defences against despotism besides her high spirit of freedom, her ardour for equality, her equal arena for talent, her local self-government, her immunity from war, her love of peaceful industry. She has the power of Association — a still more potent defence* It is true, that the people, although powerful... in the mass, are insignificant as individuals, and cannot be expected to make the same stand against the inroads of the 'one man power' as the great nobility in old feudal coimtries. But, by the power of associa- tion, they can give to their united wants and opinions the weight and momentum of a single wilL How potent a factor, indeed, this facility of association may be where the individual is weak, can be seen among ourselves. In no country in Europe, perhaps, has the individual working-man as little social, intellectual, and political power and importance as in England.
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