原文 (英语)

CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 11. THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT.—A government may be defined as an agency through which the purposes of a state or nation are formulated and carried out. This agency develops where men live in groups. One of the chief objects of government is to adjust individual interests, or, to say the same thing in slightly different words, to control members of the group in their social relations. Where groups are small and culture is at a low level, go