Word: blindest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that purpose peculiarly serious responsibilities and call to its aid portentous political and technical powers. On the other hand, if a democracy adopts the machinery of direct government and then uses the power so obtained in a jealous and suspicious spirit, it will be losing itself in the blindest and most confusing of all political labyrinths. Direct government will fall and be superseded unless the electorate uses its discretionary authority on behalf of the policy of social betterment and unless it consents to be delegation of effective subordinate Powers to human instruments of such a policy