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election is never given. It was unim- were chosen by the people themselves
portant. Governorship seems to have out of the ranks of the people, thei
been forced upon the governors. It only qualification being that the
was not sought after. There was no shall be "able men, such as fear God
(Continued from Pace 1)
graft available. When the emergency men of truth, hating unjust gain.'
was over, the governor retired, and (Ex. XVIII 13-24, lieut. 1-9, 13, 15)
A still more fundamental implies
customary
of its driving forces. These facts are left the people to thei -
tion of democracy is the ideal of popu
therefore not given in the general his- pursuits.
lar education. Hereditary monarch
tories though you will find them in
While none of the practical ma-
absolutistic despots have alway
the special histories of literature and chinery of democracy is described, its and
been interested in keeping their sub
thought, such as Lecky's "History of equally important negative implica- jects ignorant. Democracy, on th
Rationalism in Europe." Second, writ- tions are clearly indicated. The ob-
contrary, requires wide-spread educe
ers of history text-books have been ;ection to hereditary rulership, that tion for its very existence. The a b
too indolent to take the trouble to re- bane of human history, is trenchantly sence of provision for popular educ e
examine or revise the plausible old, expressed in Gideon's rejection of a tion accounts for the downfall of th
and convenient theory that the Amer- crown, in Samuel's gloomy picture of Republics of the past. An educate
ican democracy drew its ispiration it king and in the numerous prophetic community that can read the law b
from, and was modelled upon, the Re- disparagements of the monarchical in- which it is governed is, in fact,
publics of Greece and Rome.
stitution. With equal emphasis is the democracy, even if it possesses none
This theory has been proven so ut- doctrine of absolutism in government the machinery of voting or repress
terly incompetent that it need no long- attacked. No one person, be he ever tation, for the force of an entightene
er be taken seriously. In the first so wise and ever so good, can govern public opinion is irresistible and t
place, Greek history and literature a whale people unadvised and un- most arrogant autocrats have bee
were given but scant attention in the checked by others. Even Moses, the known to yield to it. It was from t
American colonies. The rugged men best of men and the wisest, had to Jewish Bible that the pioneers
who had a wilderness to conquer were gather about him a council of the rep- America derived also this basic fa
not yet attuned to the luxuries of the resentatives of the people, as we are for in our democracy. The Old Tes
citified, super-refined, aesthetici zed very pointedly told in the Books of meet reveals to its readers a socie
culture of the Ilellenes. Nor could the Exodus and Deuteronomy.
whose paramount interest is the ed
Greek and Roman republics have fur-
Among the ideal traditions upon cation of its children in the laws a n
nished acceptable models. It is only which our democracy is based, and traditions by which it is govern
by the most generous interpretation which forms the cornerstone of the The primacy of this Jewish interest
that Athens can be called a democracy. Declaration of Independence, is the learning is attested by the fact th
Four-fifths of the population of tradition of the equality of man. This the Biblical injunction with regard
Athens were slaves. Only one-fifth principle has been under fire of late. education, occupies the central pro
were free, voting citizens. Democracy chiefly by those who are ignorant of lion in the Jewish prayer book. "A
in Athens meant that 80 per cent of its historical significance. It is not. these things which I command t h
the population toiled at menial labor to be taken as a biological theory to this day shall be upon thy heart a
day and night in order to give the the effect that all babies are born with thou shalt teach them diligently on
other 20 per cent leisure to stroll in equal natural gifts and talents and thy children." Non-Jewish :who]
the forum and talk politics. Not even powers, nor is it to be taken as a polit- have accredited to the Jewish peo
the most cynical historians would ical scheme to level all minds to a dead the first publicly organized system
judge that America followed such a
uniformity. It is rather to he under- universal education. Out of the pa
model.
stood as a social protest against the of the Old Testament our Pilgr
If we would know the true spiritual special superiority absurdly claimed fathers drew that passion for popu
sources of America's Democracy, we by the titled "blue-blooded" classes, education which has proven the m
must look to the literature by which the special privileges claimed by the solid support of our Democracy.
the souls of her pioneers were dom- aristocracies of birth. Its chief ef-
This is the rich contribution wh
inated—the Jewish Bible.
fect was to eliminate from American the Jew has made to the greatness
The Old Testament nowhere outlines life all semblance of titled snobbery. America. Thomas Paine who was
a definite scheme or form of govern- Of that doctrine and that protest the champion either of the Bible or of
ment, but it presents clearly all those Jewish Bible is the most eminent ligion, freely admits these debts wh
implications of genuine democracy source. All men, says the Book of America owes the Jewish Book. Lee
upon which the Declaration of Inde- Genesis, are descended from Adam. that authoritative historian of li t
pendence and the American Constitu-
All men are equal in their common an- ature and thought, has summed t h
tion and the ideal traditions of Amer- cestry. The Jewish law respects no up in a striking sentence. He s
ican life are based.
persons. It knows no such distinction "Hebraic mortar cemented the foun
Jewish Sources of American Do.
as noble and common. On the Sabbath lions of the American democra
mocracy•
day, master and servant are equal in Two years ago, President Coolidge,
"Government by consent of the the privilege of rest and leisure and livering an address at the openin
governed" is implied throughout the the enjoyment of life. The Jewish a Jewish Community Center in W
Book of Judges. The tribes of Israel Sabbath is undoubtedly the earliest ington, quoted that sentence f
who were penetrating the hills of democratic institution known to civ- Lecky and illustrated it by presen t
Palestine seem to have required very ilized man. The law of Moses pro- some of the data which I have
little government. Their lives were vides for the ultimate elimination of given you. It all sounded so new
guided by long-established tribal cus- every vestige of human slavery. Moses startling to the representatives of
toms. Only in times of great emerg- WAS himself the son of a slave, atid press who were present that they
ency did they feel the need of a ruler the men who composed his council of cided it was first page stuff,
or judge, and then they chose him by representatives were not hand-picked
(Continued on next page.)
popular acclaim. The precise form of from some blue-blooded nobility, but
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