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168 sense it ought to mean. Democracy (popular rule) is by no means an expression for a rational or appropriate conception. Where there is authority, there must also be servants. But a free people know neither the one nor the other. Over whom are the people to rule? Even their office-holders and agents they can only entrust and commission with their affairs. The term democracy came into use simply to denote an opposition to an authority over the people. The people are not to be ruled by others, from which it does not follow, however, that now the people themselves are to establish an authority, but that all authority must disappear. And with the conception of authority the conception of government will vanish. All that remains and all that is necessary is a common administration according to general vote, a supervision of the common interests conducted by the requisite personnel under general control. Control is not authority.

"Of an individual freely attending to his affairs or promoting his interests we say neither that he governs nor that he is governed. Just as little can we say so of a society of individuals who form a voluntary association for a common purpose and call this association a State. And if for the practical attainment of their purpose they entrust or commission certain persons with certain functions, the exercise of these functions will as little constitute an authority or a government as the control of