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Drawn from what Thomas Carlyle said
democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.
Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable.
Where this was said
↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 15th
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