LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

was also accused of having brightened up Confucius, but he knew better.
He knew he hadn’t.
Formerly, when Kung died, the disciples after staying together three
years, packed their baggage and returned to their homes, but Tzu Kung
went back and built a house on the altar ground, and lived there alone for
three years. And the disciples thought Yew Jo might serve as teacher, but
Tzu said:
Washed in the waters of Kiang and Han, bleached in the autumn sun.
After that, no. There is nothing to add. Nothing to add to that whiteness.
Mebbe the difference between the Greek flash in the pan, and the
Chinese persistence is due to Kung’s having got the answer. Mencius
following and enforcing it. Whereas in Greece, Socrates gunned ’round.
As Aristotle says: “Socrates was the first to see that thought hinges on
definitions.” But Aristotle had to put the guesses in order. He didn’t take
Socrates or any of the other Greek philosophers as a solid basis. And
spent a lot of time talking about abstractions. Tho’ he did say that the
general statement must be based on a lot of concrete data. And he did
study the different constitutions of states, i.e., different political systems,
and regulations. All that of course OUGHT to be the basis of senatorial
training, of congressional training. And it drags me a bit away from the
simple text I meant to enforce, or suggest. When I said ideas are tinged
by what they are dipped in, I was thinkin’ of widdy Trotsky. Down there
in Mexico, speakin’ evil of Stalin, in fact blamin’ Joe for the war, and
saying she was to fix it all up, and conduct the world revolution. Now
we all like revolution, except when we are settin’ too easy. And a
considerable revolution has occurred during most of our lifetimes.
Though Senator Vandenberg mayn’t have heard of it YET.
Mr. Marx, Charlie, went to England, went there at a time when England
had a sort of a lead over less favored nations. And he heard about