LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

whatever, how can you understand HOW things happen? You don’t
expect a bloke who has never SEEN a game of football to rush in and
play a star game.
There are moments when I git plumb discouraged. I mean I sweat for a
couple of hours over some volume of history. Then I reflect on what I
learned ABOUT history itself. I mean when I was doing my Sigismundo
Malatesta I wanted to git at the facts, original documents, etc. and I
noticed how loosely some history is written, in fact about 97% of it.
Abstract statement, DUE to ignorance, bloke just don’t KNOW, so he
makes some generality, then when he does GIT right down to the bone
he finds he can’t always print it.
Or Mr. Henry Adams, pindlin’ Henry, sez to his brother that he has no
hankerin’ after martyrdom. I mean some of these blokes git scared. Lord
knows there is plenty to scare ’em, in one sense.
The chronicle of human chicken-headedness is SO long, the sheer
heedlessness of the majority of mankind is so persistent. Nevertheless a
man must do what he can.
Boy named Mac … no I won’t give you the rest of it, he may want to
pass an examination—at any rate he shows a couple of REAL questions
to a professor and the professor shows blank incomprehension. Don’t
shoot the pore beggar. Most of your professors were up against what you
are up against. Those favored few who GOT the cushy jobs got there for
a reason. They didn’t annoy their precursors. And the ones that RISE
were those who showed no EXCESSIVE curiosity. Don’t matter whether
it is literary merit, which is largely precision, or history. Well, well,
HISTORY is a VERY dangerous subject.
But keep on a pluggin’. Some college libraries have a FEW books. All
the public libraries haven’t suffered from the habits of borrowing, that is,