kes no demand that would involve such interest and
concern. The choice of honest representatives, persons of goodwill, and
reasonable intelligence, is no tremendous task in a community where
honesty, goodwill, and intelligence prevail. And if these things do not
prevail, if honesty is contemned in business, and goodwill between man and
man despised, and intelligence frowned upon, then it is of small importance
what the government of such a nation is, for that nation is doomed, and it
is well for the world that it should be doomed.

But, on the whole, it seems indisputable that the common people of the
great nations do cleave to honesty and goodwill, and that the desire for
intelligence is being widely fostered. As long, then, as we can count on
honesty, goodwill, and intelligence in our streets and market-places, as we
can to-day, mankind does well to elect its representatives to council and
Parliament and proclaim democracy--"Government of the people, by the
people, for the people"--as the proper government for mankind.

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Notes.

[1] We cannot be sure about the constitution of the Witenagemot. The
evidence is conflicting, and, at best, we can only offer a statement of
opinion.

[2] "The parish was the community of the township organised for Church
purposes and subject to Church discipline, with a constitution which
recognised the rights of the whole body as an aggregate, and the right of
every adult member, _whether man or woman_, to a voice in self-government,
but at the same time kept the self-governing community under a system of
inspection and restraint by a central authority outside the parish
boundaries."--Bishop Hobhouse, _Somerset Record Society_, Vol. IV.

"The community had its own assembly--the parish meeting--which was a
deliberative assembly. It had its own officers, who might be either men or
women, duly elected, sometimes for a year, sometimes for life, but in all
cases subject to being dismissed for flagrant offences. The larger number
of these officials had well-defined duties to discharge, and were paid for
their services out of funds provided by the parishioners."--DR. JESSOPP,
_Before the Great Pillage_.

[3] Radmer, _Life of Anselm_. (Rolls Series.)

[4] "The boldness of Anselm's attitude not only broke the tradition of
ecclesiastical servitude, but infused through the nation at large a new
spirit of independence."--J.R. GREEN, _History of the Engl