would have left them helpless end ineffective in public affairs.
Even in private life they were often helpless wasters of their
inheritance, like the people in Tchekov's Cherry Orchard. Even
those who lived within their incomes were really kept going by
their solicitors and agents, being unable to manage an estate or
run a business without continual prompting from those who have to
learn how to do such things or starve.

>From what is called Democracy no corrective to this state of
things could be hoped. It is said that every people has the
Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every
Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orators of the
front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
Thus our democracy moves in a vicious circle of reciprocal
worthiness and unworthiness.



Nature's Long Credits

Nature's way of dealing with unhealthy conditions is
unfortunately not one that compels us to conduct a solvent
hygiene on a cash basis. She demoralizes us with long credits and
reckless overdrafts, and then pulls us up cruelly with
catastrophic bankruptcies. Take, for example, common domestic
sanitation. A whole city generation may neglect it utterly and
scandalously, if not with absolute impunity, yet without any evil
consequences that anyone thinks of tracing to it. In a hospital
two generations of medical students way tolerate dirt and
carelessness, and then go out into general practice to spread the