The conflict is not simply between autocracy or oligarchy and democracy, but between different ideals and diametrically opposed notions of duty.

The conception of their State as an organisation carefully arranged to impose its will on others regardless of their feelings and their rights must be eradicated.
Democracy and Liberty do not necessarily go together.

There may be democracy without liberty, and it is possible though not probable that there may be real liberty without the form of democracy.

An enlightened monarch, governing as well as reigning, may express the real will of a nation more truly than the vote of a majority of representatives; and individual liberty may be more secure under such a monarch than when it is dependent on the result of divisions taken when party passion is running high.

But such a rule must lack the element of stability.