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36 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1921)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry36 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume XXXVI] POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL MORALITY THE generalizations of history are seldom of interest to the reformer, for the simple reason that they usually stand in his way. But there is one important field which seems to have escaped analysis, where Clio offers unex- pected help to those who in these troubled times are trying to keep their bearings by old landmarks, while fully aware that they are moving farther and farther from them every day. It is a generalization in the field of morals, and that is perhaps why it has escaped notice, but as it bears directly upon the most pressing problem of the hour-the effect upon society of the enlarged national control in industry and other things-it should offer whatever consolation it can bring to those who watch the running tide of public affairs with sad and disillu- sioned eyes, and it may perhaps help to cheer to some degree those who are struggling somewhat uncertainly to realize the aspirations of democracy. If one looks over the political history of modern Europe and of America, three main facts stand out. There is in the first place that steady growth of representative government by means of the widening of the electorate, which now, at the close of the war, extends over practically the entire citizenship. This patent fact of the extension of the suffrage to a practically universal basis is what is in most people's minds when they speak of the growth of democracy in our era. Barrier after barrier has been passed until we have at last done everything which the conservatives of even a generation ago regarded as dangerous to the commonweal. We have done what Lecky so March, 192.1 [Number _r

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