Dark ages of democracy

Hermann Melville: The dark ages of democracy

Myriads playing pigmy parts --
Debased into equality:
In glut of all material arts
A civic barbarism may be:
Man Disennobled -- brutalized
By popular science -- atheized
Into a smatterer:
Dead level of rank commonplace:
An Anglo-Saxon China, see
May on your vast plains shame the race
In the Dark Ages of Democracy.

Verweise

• Demokratie
• Zitate Demokratie
• Bibliografie Demokratie
• Zitate Republik