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... K Chesterton Now this masculine love of an open and level camaraderie is the life within all democracies and attempts to govern by debate; without it the republic would be a dead formula. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_14_now_this_masculine.htm
... the only positive bias. I was brought up a Liberal, and have always believed in democracy, in the elementary liberal doctrine of a self-governing humanity. If any one finds the phrase ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/orthodoxy/iv_the_ethics_of_elfland.htm
... Bible Library How the Senators Determined to Restore the Democracy; but the Soldiers were for Preserving the Monarchy, Concerning the Slaughter of Caius's Wife and Daughter. A Character The Antiquities of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_2_how_the_senators.htm
... of the present century. The nations of the earth are to-day moving in the direction of democracy. Many see and note this; but all do not perceive the character of the democracy ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/lloyd/jesus_christ_and_the_nineteenth_century.htm
... favorable influence on the history of men. Those two traits are, first, its essential democracy, and, secondly, its persistent moral appeal. Here must be recalled that century before ...
https://biblehub.com/library/mcafee/study_of_the_king_james_bible/lecture_v_the_king_james.htm
... subject to change. No matter what the result of critical study may be, the fundamental democracy of the Scripture remains. It continues to make its persistent moral appeal on any terms. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/mcafee/study_of_the_king_james_bible/lecture_vi_the_bible_in.htm
... value. To read aristocracy into the anarchy of animals is just as sentimental as to read democracy into it. Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/orthodoxy/vii_the_eternal_revolution.htm
... the serious democratic sentiment that this statement will seem to many to be lacking in seriousness. Democracy is not philanthropy; it is not even altruism or social reform. Democracy is not founded ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/heretics/xix_slum_novelists_and_the.htm
... opinion; not merely his own opinion. He is not a despot; he is a democracy, a tyrannical democracy, a dingy and local democracy perhaps; but one that could do ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_34_in_short_the.htm
... government are well suited to promote the public good. In such a state of society, democracy is greatly conducive to the general diffusion of knowledge on governmental subjects; and although, in ...
https://biblehub.com/library/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_xxi_human_government.htm
... most of the fundamentals of his; and long before the value of his teachings as to democracy, whether in the church or by extension in the state, had dawned upon mankind. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_i_the_evolution_of.htm
... teachers, and ruling elders. That the authority within the church had passed from the unrestrained democracy of the early Plymouth Separatists to a silent democracy before the command of a speaking aristocracy[ ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_iv_the_cambridge_platform.htm
... you cannot hare it at all. We must have commercial civilization; therefore we must destroy democracy." I know that plutocrats hare seldom sufficient fancy to soar to such examples as soap ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_15_the_common_conception.htm
... . The customs of the day emphasized it. Yet the institutions of the land and its democracy demanded that this barrier, not impassable to men of parts and character who could push up ...
https://biblehub.com/library/greene/the_development_of_religious_liberty_in_connecticut/chapter_xii_connecticut_at_the.htm
... to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares. But this analogy is false, for a plain and particular reason. Many ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_47_not_wishing_to.htm
... nature were spent. The greatest souls are rarer than ever. This is the age of democracy, and it would seem as ii it were going to justify Amiel's dictum that "democracy ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/watkinson/the_might_of_mediocrity.htm
... of government among the nations just previous to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will be democracy- the rule of the people: "The government of the people, by the people ...
https://biblehub.com/library/haldeman/christ_christianity_and_the_bible/the_bible.htm
... reverence in man. But our age is essentially democratic, and while we heartily believe in democracy, this spirit, nevertheless, has been making for irreverence. Democracy preaches the doctrine of ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/mcphail/reverence.htm
... of government. Political forms are means, not ends. We cannot, assume that a democracy is the ideal. The kingdom of heaven is a monarchy, not dependent on men's votes ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/asking_for_a_king.htm
... is no case anywhere of aristocracy having established a universal and applicable order, as despots and democracies have often done; as the last Caesars created the Roman law, as the last Jacobins ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_23_seemingly_from_the.htm
... "by which they should glorify God."] [2769] [Note the Catholic democracy of Christianity, which levels up and not downward.] [2770] [This vindication ...
https://biblehub.com/library/clement/the_stromata_or_miscellanies/chapter_viii_women_as_well_as.htm
... them or not; but this is surely a strange and childish case of setting up formal democracy to the destruction of actual democracy. What should the mass of women decide if they do ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_16_it_will_be.htm
... would teach them, that they were under a theocracy. There was no room for a democracy, either real or pretended, in Israel. Nor is the Church of Christ now a ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/young/the_rebellion_of_korah_the_conspirators_and_their_pretext.htm
... children to realise — a unity in Christ. Every one speaks of the present tendency towards democracy. The idea of democracy is not, if we look below the surface, so much ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/westcott/unselfish_ministry.htm
... keeping the peace in Europe. Read any armful of essays and poems in praise of social democracy, and see how many of them praise the old Jacobins who created democracy and died for ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_4_the_last_few.htm
