Carrol,
    It does not makest me want to kicketh meself. What makest thou now of
the difference of Adams statement und Pawhownd's? I see his editing as a
mistake in juxtaposing the phases "unlimited sovereignty" and "or absolute
power". But what did EP have in mind that would have been ... between these
two? Could that be a hop, skip and a jump to divine right? George W.
receives the divine mandate to smite the unrighteous idol worshippers and
prepare the way before the Messiah? The prophecy to be fulfilled being only
Spengler's.
"There must be someway out of here..." B.D.

"Tempus loquendi,
Tempus tacendi"

Tempus obtundo,
Chas

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>From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Rom. Pound
>Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 9:28 AM
>

> Tim Romano wrote:
>>
>> The so-called prose of several centuries is concerned with--or at least
>> your teachers will recommend it for --"sentence structure".  (ABC of
>> Reading, ch. 8, "Basis").
>>
>> The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or
>> unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a
>> popular assembly, an aristocratic council, an oligarchical junto, and a
>> single emperor.
>> -- John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson [November 13, 1815]
>>
>> Carrol, 'the majority of a popular assembly' can be another form of
despotism.
>> Tim Romano
>
> Right! And its one of those points that makesd one kick oneself for not
> having seen it before.
>
> Oh well! I got a good early morning chuckle out of it.
>
> Carrol
>
> P.S. And the only text of Adams I own is, precisely, the Letters of
> Adams & Jefferson  I haven't read it for years, however.