Today’s analect relates to CC203’s study of the foundation of social sciences:
Propitious circumstances and good laws might succeed in drawing to the legislature of a democratic people men very superior to those who are returned by the Americans to Congress ; but nothing will ever prevent the men of slender abilities who sit there from obtruding themselves with complacency, and in all ways, upon the public.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (courtesy of google books, p. 112) translated by Henry Reeve, Esq.
