“ It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”
There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.
~ Robert Service
Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.