LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

I take it in retrospect that my tendency to action had effects, people who
were bored with stagnation, and were relieved at the sight of ANY
vitality, this must have been a TINY minority, and the vast majority of
the small minority into contact with which I came, was uneasy,
disturbed, horrified in fact: for that sign of action was also some sort of a
harbinger.
SOMETHING was going on, or if not actually going ON, something
might occur somewhere.
And DID.
Not only one war, but another, and the END of the materialist Era. The
end of that particularly dirty Anschauung. Not merely the change of an
IDEA, not the change of ONE idea, or notion, but the change of a
WHOLE disposition toward life. Sloth, laziness, snobbishness, greed or
whatever prevented the English from seeing what the change was to be,
or what it was when it hit ’em. Also ignorance, also that part of the
constructed snobishness which had helped to blot out historic sense.
(Not by accident. That was intended.)
However, the dichotomy, the division was an age-old division. When
Mencius went to see King Huei of Liang, the King said, have you got
some thing that will bring PROFIT? Profit motive, already known, two
thousand five hundred years before Blast; 2,400 years before Marx half
swallowed Hegel. And Mencius said: why use that word, what I got is
my sense of EQUITY. If you can’t use that in your Kingdom, good
morning, I have mistaken the address.
Well, now the sense of EQUITY, sense of justice, was what England had
lost or mislaid. Ben dell’ intelletto Dante called it, or something not very
far from it. Homely English would get that down to “use of your wits,”
but I reckon Dante meant something nearer to Mencius’s meaning.
However BOTH the use of the wits, and the sense of justice or equity