(Eng ed 20–4617)
“The lecturer of Oxford tutorial classes attempts to show what democracy implies. He recognizes that the word has come to mean nothing. Having accepted the principle of equality, as the basis of a division of power, he proceeds to outline representative government. He finds in this inevitable delegation of power, three main problems; the demand for general education to make articulate public opinion, the machinery for translating this public opinion into practice and in the third place, the need of curbing those elected to office, so that they will not forget the source of their power.”—Boston Transcript
“An excellent little book.”
+ Ath p303 Mr 5 ’20 520w
“Ivor Brown’s ‘The meaning of democracy’ warms the heart with the new vision of education—education where teacher and students meet as equals.” A. Yezierska
+ Bookm 52:499 F ’21 190w Boston Transcript p5 D 4 ’20 140w + − Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 360w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p116 F 19 ’20)
“It is more human, more readable, and more thought-provoking than nine out of ten of the treatises on the same general lines with which it has been our rather arduous privilege to grapple. This is because Mr Brown is neither very whole-hearted nor, happily, very consistent about his self-imposed task. The terrible series of definitions by which he is going to fathom the last recesses of the democratic idea loses itself, like certain eastern rivers, in the desert during the course of the first few chapters; and we can bear with the loss.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p116 F 19 ’20 1500w
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