Democracy must depend on a healthy, robust sense of personal responsibility in its citizens, and every increase in the inspectorate tends to diminish this personal responsibility, and to breed a "servile state" that will fall a willing prey to tyranny and bureaucracy.
Nevertheless, whilst in self-defence democracy will avoid increasing its officials, it will distinguish between officials and employees.

It is bound to add to the number of its employees every year, as its municipal and imperial responsibilities grow steadily larger, and these employees, rightly regarded as public servants, cannot threaten to become our masters.
WORKING-CLASS ASCENDANCY Still one more danger to democracy may be mentioned, and that is the notion that from the working class must necessarily come our best rulers.
"Rulers are not wise by reason of their number or their poverty, or their reception of a weekly wage instead of a monthly salary or yearly income.

It is worse and more unpleasant and more dangerous to be ruled by many fools than by one fool, or a few fools.

The tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly mob is a worse tyranny than the tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly clique or individual.
"Workers are not respectable or to be considered because they work more with their hands or feet than with their brains, but because the work they do is good.

If it is not good work they do, they are as unprofitable as any other wasters.