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People nowadays speak of democracy in the same reverent way as formerly they used to speak of aristocracy and of monarchy. In each of these three cases we will find that such forms of government and civilization had both a good side and a bad side and when the bad side became too heavy then the old form began to decay and eventually to be destroyed. We all know the merits and advantages which the waves of democracy have spread around the world, but what about the demerits--such things as coarseness and shallowness, ill breeding and vulgarity, obscenity and tawdriness in art?

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 519