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produces Order; Democracy Initiative. Democracy Invents; Autocracy Applies.
10. Autocracy's Efficiency is quick, specious, and temporary; Democracy's Efficiency is cumulative; every success means another.
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11. Democracy is Natural; Autocracy is Artificial.
Democracy is its own remedy. The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy. It carries within itself its own recuperation. Autocracy prepares its own ruin.
Democracy has in it the seed of Evolution; Autocracy has in it the seed of Revolution.
The Strength of Democracy is Education; the Strength of Autocracy is Obedience.
The God of Democracy is the same God the individual has; the God of Autocracy has a different moral code from that of the individual. The Kaiser's God, for instance, approved of the rape of Belgium and the sinking of the "Lusitania."
16. The method of Democracy is Light;
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of Autocracy Darkness. Democracy created the Free Press; Autocracy the Censor.
17. It is complained of Democracy that it debates
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