(We will discuss details presently.) Social Science, at that time, too, moved in the direction of Democracy and even Socialism.

I know it appears monstrous, and indeed almost incredible, that men who really had some claim to be called educated seriously maintained that the most stable and the most reasonable method of government lay in the extension of the franchise--that is, in reversing the whole eternal and logical order of things, and permitting the inexpert to rule the expert, and the uneducated and the ill-informed to control by their votes--that is, by sheer weight of numbers--the educated and the well-informed.

Yet such was the case.

And the result was--since all these matters act and react--that the idea of authority from above in matters of religion was thought to be as 'undemocratic' as in matters of government and social life.

Men had learnt, that is to say, something of the very real truth in the theory of the Least Common Multiple, and, as in psychology and many other sciences, had presumed that the little fragment of truth that they had perceived was the whole truth." Mr.Manners paused to draw breath.