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"This year's series of Heritage Lectures is concerned with the somewhat pressing question of whether our American culture will survive the tribulations (( evolution activated -- powered )) * * of our age. In the two previous lectures, I have discussed the ideology called "multiculturalism" as a menace; and whether a civilization that lacks belief in a religion can endure. In my final lecture, in December, I mean to talk about means for combating cultural decay (( entropy // evolution )) * * . Today I have chosen for my subject the degradation of the democratic dogma."

"I take my title from the writings of Henry and Brooks Adams. They found American democracy in process of degradation more than a century ago. The decay of the American Presidency from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Adams remarked, refuted altogether Darwin's theory of evolution * * * . To a similar thesis I shall return presently."

"But first, indulge me in some observations concerning the present condition of what is called "democracy" near the close of the 20th century. We are informed by certain voices that soon all the world will be democratic. But whether or not, the American mode of democratic government prevails, the abstract ideology called democratism that any government which has obtained a majority of votes be received as "democratic." Enthusiasts for unrestricted democracy presumably forget that Adolph Hitler, too, was democratically elected and sustained by popular plebiscites. Alexis de Tocqueville warned his contemporaries against ... "democratic despotism," --- 20th century writers discuss "totalist democracy."

... * * ... my additions !

... * * * ... evolutionists are always saying things are getting better when they're actually getting worse !