Kroll.

So you don’t think we have democracy enough already! For my part it seems to me we are all in a fair way to be dragged down into the mire, where hitherto only the mob have been able to thrive.

Rosmer.

That is just why I want to awaken the democracy to its true task.

Kroll.

What task?

Rosmer.

That of making all the people of this country noble-men.

Kroll.

All the people——?