2/44 That is at once the glory and the danger of democratic government. There is no better way discovered as yet. And besides, I couldn't go on here, dad, preaching Sunday after Sunday to people who I felt were all the time saying, 'He's no good'; to people, in short, who could not profit by my preaching." "Because it had no pep, eh ?" said his father with bitter scorn. What pep is, only the initiated know. But the long and the short of this thing is, it is the people that must be satisfied. |