LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

All of which has bloody well dished and ditched the pore old British
iniquitous empire. Too late to save that now. And anyhow, I am speaking
to the United States of America. Forty years ago Brooks Adams made a
quite good study of England, foreseein’ she would bust up, and part go
to the United States of America and part go to Germany with, if I
remember it right, Japan gettin’ a look in. Nacherly VERY few people
read Mr. Adams. I only know of ONE Englishman who has quoted him.
And I am not enamoured of retrospect. I ought to have been given
Brooks Adams when I was havin’ a shot at American history in the
University of Pennsylvania—that’s 40 years ago. Might have accelerated
me in giving him a little publicity. In fact ALL history teachin’ in
American universities ought to have got hold of Brooks Adams THEN,
1897–1900, 1903 his best volumes.
His weak an’ pindlin’ young brother Henry was not the man that his
elder brother Brooks was. Brooks seeing what had happened in history,
seem’ it pretty clearly, foreseeing what would happen in HIS time, but
not seeing beyond that. Knowing that an age of faith, or ages of faith had
existed, but did not see the next one. Livin’, you may say, in his own
phase. Foreseein’ the down flop of England, that is, of the Empire,
noting symptoms of England’s decline, which the English remained deaf
to, and blind to.
BUT not foreseeing the Italian rise, not foreseeing the change of phase:
from material to volitional.
Reactin’ against John Quincy Adams’ judized form of religion. I forget
where he notes that, maybe in the preface to his book on New England.
ANYhow trying to figure out where John Quincy Adams, whom he
greatly admired, had gone off the rails, not gittin’ back to his great
grandad John Adams, the father of his country and inventor to some
extent of General Washington.