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100	1		_aRichmond, W. B., Sir _q(William Blake), _d1842-1921
245	1	0	_aDemocracy—false or true?
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-05
508			_aCarol Brown, Lukas Bystricky and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Democracy—false or true?" by Sir W. B. Richmond is a political and philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. It probes whether modern democracy can be genuine when severed from spiritual principle, honest workmanship, and a living rural culture. Blending myth, biblical parable, history, and post-war reflection, it argues against materialism and coercive industrial unionism while urging a humane, educated, duty-based commonwealth rooted in agriculture and craft. The opening of the treatise finds the author “playing the prophet” as he affirms free will, the endurance of the soul, and the shaping power of noble desire. He treats myths and scripture—Genesis, Plato’s soul-chariot, Apollo and Persephone, the rainbow—not as literal science but as poetic truths that elevate conduct, contrasting them with dogma and raw materialism. From Egypt’s reverent craftsmanship and Britain’s Stonehenge to Greek and Christian symbols, he praises civilizations where labor served a high ideal. He then condemns Germany’s wartime materialism and the wrecking of art, turns to England to laud the old honesty of her craftsmen, and attacks union coercion, the illusion of equality, shoddy work for high pay, and strikes that imperil the nation. Throughout he calls for education, disciplined leisure, fraternity over license, and a revival of agriculture and craft against the poisons of industrialism, closing this section by setting out for a northern manufacturing city and sketching a smoke-blighted, cinder-laden landscape as prelude to his “Dream.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: The Morland Press Ltd, 1920
653			_aGreat Britain -- Social conditions
653			_aLabor -- Great Britain
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/democracyfalseor00richrich
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78117
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