A democrat, so far as the statement is true, could trust the fate of his cause in each particular state to the friends of national progress.

Democracy would not need for its consummation the ruin of the traditional political fabrics; but so far as those political bodies were informed by genuinely national ideas and aspirations, it could await confidently the process of national development.

In fact, the first duty of a good democrat would be that of rendering to his country loyal patriotic service.

Democrats would abandon the task of making over the world to suit their own purposes, until they had come to a better understanding with their own countrymen.

One's democracy, that is, would begin at home and it would for the most part stay at home; and the cause of national well-being would derive invaluable assistance from the loyal cooeperation of good democrats.
A great many obvious objections will, of course, be immediately raised against any such explanation of the relation between democracy and nationality; and I am well aware that these objections demand the most serious consideration.