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The home life of a nation depends on the same coincidence, or on 



spontaneously similar propensities . . . . .231 



This truly democratic coincidence fo'rces all governments to accommo- 

 date themselves to it . . . . . 233 



The same democratic power determines the structure of our houses, . 233 



and the furniture and other commodities in them, . . . 234 



and indeed all economic products ..... 234 



For though in the process of production the many are dependent on 



the few, ..... 235 



(a fact which the powers of trade unionism do but make more 



apparent) ........ 235 



yet it is the wants and tastes of the many which determine what shall be 



produced ........ 238 



and though great men elicit these wants by first supplying them, . 239 



the wants themselves must be latent in the nature of the many, and 



when once aroused are essentially democratic phenomena . 239 



Thus though economic supply is aristocratic, economic demand is 



purely democratic ....... 240 



The most gifted brewer cannot make the public drink beer they do 



not like ........ 241 



Now in politics also there is a similar demand and supply ; . . 242 



but the truly democratic demand in politics is not for laws . . 242 



The demand for laws is not the counterpart of a demand for com- 

 modities, for commodities are demanded for their own sake, laws 

 for the sake of their results ..... 243 



The demand for laws is like a demand that commodities shall be made 



by some special kind of machinery .... 243 



No one makes this latter demand. Economic demand is single ; 



political demand is double ..... 244 



Political democracy is vulgarly identified with the demand not for 



social goods, but for machinery ..... 244 



But in so far as democracy is a demand not for goods but for machinery, 



it is not purely democratic ..... 245 



The demands of the many are manipulated by the few . . 245 



Why, then, is democracy especially associated with the demand in which 



its power is least ? . . . . . . . 246 



Because it is the only sphere of activity in which the many can interfere 



with the machinery of supply at all ; . . . . 246 



and they can interfere with it here because the effects of political 



