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 to a layman. But how it all stands with those advanced democratic nations, like America, where the government ts the dispassionately faithful agent and spokesman of the body of citizens, and where there can consequently be no division of aims and sentiment between the body of officials and any underlying population — all that is a more obscure and hazardous subject of speculation. Yet there has been censorship, somewhat rigorous, and there has been selective refusal of mail facilities, somewhat arbitrary, in these democratic commonwealths also, and not least in America, freely acknowledged to be the most naïvely democratic of them all. And all the while one would like to believe that it all has somehow served some useful end. It is all sufficiently perplexing.