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sities and the clergy. If the men whose business is to teach are gifted with wisdom and inspired with noble ideals, their influence will permeate and guide the whole community, and insure, not only good government, but also those better and higher things for which government exists. Therefore, if democracy is destined to fail, as its enemies predict and hope, it will fail because the universities, the clergy, and the literary class are false to their trust.
James B. Peterson.
