For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.