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Show Politics of 'the iosltivIsts. London, January 2. Frederick Harrison, in his address before the Positivist Society, said that the British constitution since the franchise had been more democratic than the constitutions of France and America, with real reserve power. The government had become a committee of a huge democratic demo-cratic club, called the Commons. There was no urgent need to form public opinions independent inde-pendent of politics and parliaments. The Positivists favored a national government for Ireland, with legislative and exeoutive power, but he trusted that the latter would not be purely democratic. |