Carolina QuotesThe conflict is not really between royalty and democracy. It is between both and plutocracy, which, having destroyed the royal power by frank force under democratic pretexts, has bought and swallowed democracy.
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- Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century (1971)
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- 1971
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