...decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, * Let the best man win, whoever he is.' Let the best man win ! That is America's word....cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight." CL Faucis vtvat humanum genus: "for the few the race should live/' — this is the discarded motto...

...freedom to true aristocracy, saying, ' Let the best man win, whoever he is/ Let the best man win I That is America's word. That is true democracy. And...cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight." H Faucis vivat humanum genus : "for the few the race should live," — this is the discarded motto...

...aristocracy, say1 Copyright, 1902, by The Macmillan Company. 383 ing, "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win ! That is America's word....The above reflections occurred to me before reaching Billings, Montana, some three weeks after I had unexpectedly met the Virginian at Omaha, Nebraska....

...decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win! That is America's word....cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight. — Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter XIIL . . . Modern democracy, accordingly, depends for its success...

...decree we acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying "Let the best man win, whoever he is." Let the best man win! That is America's word....anybody cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight.47 Turner's West was that of a liberal progressive, and he laid considerable stress on the...

.... . . [and] gave freedom to true aristocracy, say ing "Let the best man win, whoever he is." . . . That is true democracy. And true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the same thing. However, he confesses in the next paragraph that he has reached these conclusions after his next experience...

...man . . . [and] gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying 'Let the best man win, whoever he is' ... That is true democracy. And true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the same thing" (cited in Robert Murray Davis, Playing Cowboys, p. 14). 48. Cited in Jane Tompkins, West of Everything,...

...Darwinist argument for providing equal opportunity without guaranteeing equal outcome was, to Wister, "true democracy. And true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the same thing. If anyone cannot see this, so much the worse for his hindsight" (p. 147). Clearly, the contemporary populace...

...decree w£ acknowledged and gave freedom to true aristocracy, saying, 'Let the best man win, whoever he is.' Let the best man win! That is America's word....true democracy and true aristocracy are one and the samc thing. If anybody cannot see this, so much the worse for his eyesight."7 Zutreffend konstatiert...

...it acts as the wishful literary equivalent of executive power or of the presidential bully pulpit. "Let the best man win! That is America's word. That...the same thing. If anybody cannot see this, so much worse for his eyesight" (125), the narrator polemically explicates for the author, wit ha force like...