The anti-Corn Law rhymes of Ebenezer Eliot, and the Chartist songs of Ernest Jones were notable inspirations in their day, and in our own times Walt Whitman and Mr.Edward Carpenter have been the chief singers of democracy.

But a whole volume at least might be written on the part the pen has played in the struggle towards democracy.
Again, there is no mention of Ireland in this short sketch.

A Nationalist movement is not necessarily a democratic movement, and the Irish Nationalist Party includes men of very various political opinions, whose single point of agreement is the demand for Home Rule.

In India and Egypt the agitation is for representative institutions.

Ireland might, or might not, become a democracy under Home Rule--who can say?
The aim of the present writer has been to trace the travelled road of the English people towards democracy, and to point out certain landmarks on that road, in the hope that readers may be turned to examine more closely for themselves the journey taken.