Excerpt from Notes to the People, Vol. 1In starting and continuing these N otes, at a time of peculiar political and social apathy, I have, I believe I may safely assert, had more than ordinary difficulties to contend against.They were started with a determination not to pander to the sensuality of the public by meretricious writing - not to degrade the literature of demo cracy to the level of the street-walker.Then they won't sell, it was said. It is good policy. To write thus, for you thus make democracy go down.' You must sugar the pill.Not so, I answered.

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