
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin
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Democracy Is the Kind of Thing Human Beings Cannot Bear Upon Their Shoulders
He says democracy is the kind of thing which human beings cannot bear upon their shoulders. Why should this be? He consider, i say, s the following. What people really like and what they dislike are not things that you give them as an altar to sacrifice themselves on. That is what makes wars possible. And how long did it last and how much we had to pay for it afterwards?'
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