oAn Address

representative a man whom they have known
personally all their lives. These representatives
are gathered into wider councils, and in this way
the common interests are easily and honestly
concentrated. But in larger States these essential
 simplicities do not exist—and the small
numbers are essential ; for, as the numbers
increase the separate members necessarily lose
their mutual personal relationship ; and, as they
cannot know their representative personally, they
elect some plausible fellow, the man who flatters
them most, or promises them the most immediate
advantages. Such leaders are typically men of
some oratorical power, who profess politics for
the love of self-importance, or for private gain ;
and when such men meet in a national parliament
 there is neither honesty nor wisdom in
their counsels.

Let me remind yon that Athens—that famous
example of successtul democracy—was not a real
democracy. It was served by a slave population :
and that, you know, avoids the main difficulty
of allowing the vote of the majority to rule—
because the slave-workers had no vote. We have