Excerpt from The Example of Switzerland
The majority of those who study the social phenomena and the fluctuations of public opinion resulting from the present war, agree in predicting a considerable advance for the democratic idea. This advance will not consist merely in certain electoral reforms which governments will be forced to concede while the war still continues. Almost everywhere it is felt that a more extensive and more energetic participation in the political life and government of the nations by the democracies of those nations will be one of the means of preventing a recurrence of catastrophes such as those which have laid waste a portion of the globe for four years. An Hungarian nobleman, Count Karolyi, wrote to his electors a few days ago: "The necessary preliminary to the possibility of peace is the democratization of the States, which would, as a result of this, be in opposition to imperialistic excesses."
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