view of the higher classes need in no way be bound up with the present-day decadence of our Upper Ten Thousand.
It is difficult for a reader of Jewish newspapers to imagine the evils involved in this modern institution of democratic control by Parliament, unless he has learned to think and examine for himself. It has been the primal cause why all our political life has been so unbelievably flooded with all that is most worthless. So long as the true leaders are withdrawn from political activities, which consist chiefly not in creative work and production, but in haggling and bargaining for the favours of a majority, so long will these activities be in harmony with low mentalities, and will also be an attraction to them.
One thing we must and may never forget : a majority can never be a substitute for the Man. It is always the advocate not only of stupidity, but also of cowardly policies ; and just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, a heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards.