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Another gem from "The Failure of Universal Suffrage":
"The highest man may comprehend the lowest, but the lowest can no more comprehend the highest than if he belonged to another order of beings... "
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"...A single human mind may engender thoughts which the combined efforts of millions of lower intelligences cannot conceive. This is not the faith of Demos. In his vague way, he fancies that aggregated ignorance and weakness will bear the fruits of wisdom."
(Parkman, Francis. “The Failure of Universal Suffrage.” The North American Review 127, no. 263 (1878): 1–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25100650.)