The Moral And Religious Challenge of Our Times the Guiding Principle in Human D
The Moral And Religious Challenge of Our Times the Guiding Principle in Human D
King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934
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For, as Croly says, "for better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspira- tion toward human perfectibility, and hence from the adoption of measures looking in the direction of realizing such an aspiration. " ^ This means that a democracy cannot make en- during progress without ethical progress. Its foundations must be laid in a thoughtful justice for all, and in unceasing pains to bring all to the ^ The Promise of American Life, p. 454. A TRUER DEMOCRACY 313 height of their sev...eral capacities. Only so can either nation or individual attain the best. "The future of the American people, " it has been well said, ''depends upon the future of the American conscience. " It is peculiarly perilous, moreover, for a democ- racy to fail in genuine exemplification of the democratic spirit ; not only because the ultimate power is in the hands of the people, and a govern- ment that fails them is certain finally to be brought to book ; but, because the undemocratic action or poHcy involves self-stultification at every step and the consequent permeation of the national life with all the evils of a disintegrating sham.
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