306 POLITICS 



produce wonders in the way of dispatch, coordination, and com- 

 bination, brew relish for order and rapidity in business, and discon- 

 tent for the slow, lumbering, awkward methods which, to date, 

 most democracies insist upon in conducting public affairs. 



The inclination is, therefore, observable on every hand to allow 

 executives longer rope, a freer hand, more independence in detail 

 from legislatures and from the constituency. Whereunto this will 

 grow, none can tell. As it is, however, clearly inconsistent with the 

 democracy hitherto expounded and practiced, it helps to swell and 

 spread the conviction that democracy, at least democracy as we 

 know it, cannot be the final polity. 



