Extreme Economic Inequality (III) is a Threat to Democracy
This post closes the series on Progress and Inequality initiated with the post on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."