nonentities, who can easily be led in certain definite directions, especially if the intelligence in each individual of them is limited. Only thus can the game of Party politics be played in its unhealthy present-day sense. But it also makes it possible for the real wire-pullers to remain safely in the background, with no possibility of ever being made personally responsible. For now a decision, however harmful to the nation, cannot be put to the account of any one rascal who is in the public eye, whereas it can always be transferred to the shoulders of a whole section.
Thus there is no responsibility in practice, for this liability can rest on one individual only, and not on an assemblages of parliamentary chatterboxes.
That institution can only be pleasing or profitable to mendacious crawlers who avoid the light of day, and it must be hateful to any good, straightforward man who is ready to take personal responsibility.
Hence this style of Democracy has become the instrument of the race, which, in order to forward