Excerpt from The Democratic Mistake: Godkin Lectures of 1909 Delivered at Harvard University Since delivering these lectures in the spring of 1909, I have not had an opportunity to te vise them until now. They are printed sub stantially as delivered; for the sake of cleamess, part of the first has been transferred to the second, thus shortening the former, and length ening the latter. I have avoided, as far as possible, attempting to enforce my points by referring to later aspects of the questions under discussion, presented by recent events. If the view taken of the matter is sound, the passage of time is sure to furnish new instances, and the reader will have no difficui'y 1n making the application himself As delivered, the title of the lectures wassome Unsettled Questions Relating to Popularityovernment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.