id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
democracy--27368	Faguet, Émile	The Cult of Incompetence	nan		.txt	text/plain	46546	1910	61	Old men who are not respected take no interest in their natural duties; they cease to advise, or else they only venture to advise indirectly, as though they were apologising for their wisdom, or they affect a laxity of morals to enable them to insinuate a surreptitious dose of worldly wisdom;--and worst of all in view of the insignificant part assigned to them in society, old men will nowadays decline to be old. Liberty, the object of such a law, is for the French, as Baron Joannès has remarked: The right of each man to do what he likes and to prevent other men from doing what they like.	cache/democracy--27368.txt	txt/democracy--27368.txt