Was Lord Bacon a bootblack?
Was the Duke of Marlborough a crossing sweeper?
In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of _any_ man in _any_ position at _any_ moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment.
Much vague and sentimental journalism has been poured out to the effect that Christianity is akin to democracy, and most of it is scarcely strong or clear enough to refute the fact that the two things have often quarrelled.

The real ground upon which Christianity and democracy are one is very much deeper.

The one specially and peculiarly un-Christian idea is the idea of Carlyle--the idea that the man should rule who feels that he can rule.

Whatever else is Christian, this is heathen.

If our faith comments on government at all, its comment must be this--that the man should rule who does _not_ think that he can rule.