Word: honorum
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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This anomaly, however, is easily explained by considering certain subsidiary features of the two political systems. In the United States, for example, the political curses honorum might be likened to a tall laddor which the politician, starting ordinarily at the bottom ascends rung by rung. The climb is long, laborious, and slow. The educated American, ever impatient of results, is not temperamentally equipped for the task, and easily deviates into fields where his ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first...
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