The Blood of the Nation 



with volunteer soldiers can democracy 

 go into war. When America fights 

 with professional troops, she will be no 

 longer America. We shall then be, 

 with the rest of the militant world, 

 under mob rule. " It is the mission of 

 democracy/' says Ferguson again, " to 

 put down the rule of the mob. In 

 monarchies and aristocracies it is the 

 mob that rules. It is puerile to suppose 

 that kingdoms are made by kings. 

 The king could do nothing if the mob 

 did not throw up its cap when the king 

 rides by. The king is consented to by 

 the mob because of that which in him 

 is mob-like. The mob loves glory and 

 prizes. So does the king. If he 

 loved beauty and justice, the mob 

 would shout for him while the fine 

 words were sounding in the air; but 

 he could never celebrate a jubilee or 

 establish a dynasty. When the crowd 

 gets ready to demand justice and beauty, 



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