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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
“Not that the noble soul, born poor, should be set to spout in Parliament, but that he should be set to assist in governing men: this is our grand Democratic interest”
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. III, Downing Street (Project Gutenberg #1140)
Carlyle's redefinition of democracy as the recruitment of able men from every rank into government.
Citation: "Not that the noble soul, born poor, should be set to spout in Parliament, but that he should be set to assist in governing men: this is our grand Democratic interest" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. III, Downing Street (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q9)
