ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY

TO STELLA GREUSEL Whatever good there be in this work, and the four sequel volumes which are to follow, I owe to your inspiration; but for the defects I

accept sole responsibility

OF DEMOCRACY

OR

RISE OF THE COMMON MAN

Being a Treatise on Social Evolution
From Babylon to the Bastile, Culmi-
nating in Sovereignty of the People

BY

JOHN HUBERT GREUSEL

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America's noble ideals, symbolizing the uplift of mankind,
did not originate in 1776; but instead is the cumulative inheri-
tance resulting from thousands of years of sufferings and sacri-
fices on part of all men, back even to the Stone-Dawn. This
volume sets forth the social evolution of Man, from the period
of the Unrisen Savage, upward to you, today.
(This book is Volume I of a series of five, depicting history
of common man down the centuries, viz.: Volume I, “In Antiq-
uity”; Volume II, “Roman Republic”; Volume III, “Roman
Empire”; Volume IV, “Mediaeval”;' Volume V,' "Modern
Period.")

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