Democratic Man: His Appearance in the World, by H. L. Mencken

"Everywhere its fundamental axioms are accepted: (a) that the great masses of men have an inalienable right, born of the very nature of things, to govern themselves, and (b) that they are competent to do it. Are they occasionally detected in gross and lamentable imbecilities? Then it is only because they are misinformed by those who would exploit them: the remedy is more education."

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A reading of Mencken's hitpiece 'Professor Veblen' would be stupendous