“The Human race is gradually learning the simple lesson that the people as a whole are wiser for the public good and the public prosperity, than any privileged class of men, however refined and cultivated, has ever been, or, by any possibility, can ever become. Governments over societies the most advanced are still in a transitional stage; and they are necessarily and logically moving...in the direction of democracy; that form of self-government which represents and expresses the average intelligence and virtue of free and educated people.”

~~Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society