The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-21
"THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY"

AS the author of work in New York entitled
as above shortly Honolulu brief review of the book will
be of local interest Mr. Charles Dole is the author being
cousin Sanford Dole Judge Of the United States District
Court for Hawaii former work by Mr. Dole American citizen
Ship has been used Honolulu High School Ote
books he has written The Coming People and The Religion OF
a Gentleman
"The Spirit Democracy, the first place ndied with pleas
ing literary style equally agreeable method of OF
the subiectmater preface the author strikes optimistic key
note to which the part treatise itself rings He
my purpose in this book to show what real democratic
government People have studied the outside of the body
of democracy they have hardly begun know what makes its
life or upon what its good health depends.
Democracy world, colossal scale
than before Its friends perhaps faced diff
cult problems Neither have they had so much
He has easy offer prophecy make but says
there @ certain spirit of humanity good will which all the clear
thinkers coming the essential factor in civilization
This srit growing All the signs of the times go to
snow thar the wcId coming to demand this spirit the hungry
body Graves food hope to show that IN the growth OF this spirit
find the clew understand and to work out the splendid expert
the problem of evil he accepts the facts Of svage and barbam
the those necessary period of childhood human life
sympatzes with President David Starr Jodans lines;
Jungle and and reef and sea-
loved Gods earth and his earth loved me-
Taken for all in all
adds concuson But that here
carry hgoad through jungle and mark the reefs by buoys
and lighthouses If the world the whole is good world we shall
find this fast make better
The chapter deals with the teachings of history warning be
ing gwen that interesting ana valuable as Misery's 1T IS easy 70
and failures. MANY time the author
wandered from the path of advancement in futile
experiments which only serve best as warnings to later genera
tons The history Of medicine OF science of Institutions OF morals
of religions of liberty through thousands OF years presents to the
reader only here and there brief eras OF progress like jets OF light
rising the darkness of the primitive ignorance and superstition
The inventors the discoveries the eOmer the leaders of the
march of mankind have not been men who worshd the past and
followed historical pceden On the contrary they have thrown
precedens addressed themselves every instance
the pressing questions OF their own age they have gapPed at hrSt
hand with the conditions and the materials
which they immediately hand they have freed their mind of
Pudces they have set their eyes on ideals and the future rather
than statutes; they have believed that new
due is suggested chat the startling
examples supposed failure democracy have been instances
of the rule of many but rather of the dpng rule of the few who
have hoodwinked the many The horrors of the French
revolution for instance Mr. Dole going that the trouble
there in the matter of misrue of American cities that the
democracy had not been organized.
New ideas politics taken eve have studied nature
outside of We begun fairly study the far
pont science of the within u.s. and in conclusion
this point the author says that democracy machine to