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PRECIS PASSAGE 1999
To have faith in the dignity and worth of the individual man as an end in himself, to believe that it is better to be governed by persuasion than by coercion, to believe that fraternal goodwill is more worthy than a selfish and contentions spirit, to believe that in the long run all values are inseparable from the love of truth and the disinterested search for it, to believe that knowledge and the power it confers should be used to promote the welfare and happiness of all men, rather than to serve the interests of those individual and classes whom fortune and intelligence endow with temporary advantage – these are the values which are affirmed by the traditional democratic ideology. The case of democracy is that it accepts the rational and humane values as ends and proposes as the means of realizing them the minimum of coercion and the maximum of voluntary assent. We may well abandon the cosmological temple in which the democratic ideology originally enshrined these values, without renouncing the faith it was designed to celebrate. The essence of that faith is belief in the capacity of man, as a rational and humane creature to achieve the good life by rational and humane means. The Chief virtue of democracy and the sole reason for cherishing it is that with all its faults it still provides the most favorable conditions for achieving that end by those means.
PRECIS
The celebration of man’s majesty as above all, belief in rule by the people instead of tyranny ,promoting collective good will and cultivation of truth and its search , belief in welfare of its civitaz instead of the vested interests of privileged individuals, these are the main ingredients which make up the foundations of democratic structure . Democracy believes in sanity and shuns forces of despotism; it is the motherly figure that embraces humane values as ideal and emphasizes the realization of these values by mutual consent. Moreover, It doesn’t impose restrictions on its followers to adhere to certain cult or dogmas . Rather, it gives vogue to power of reason and benevolence. It’s nobility lies in egalitarian spirit notwithstanding certain loopholes in its structure.
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Title: The spirit of Democracy

Precis is supposed to be a short summary of any given text.

Although you did a fair enough job at keeping it relatively short, I'm surprised by the vocabulary used with respect to the overall structure of your summary.

Try to keep the vocabulary simple and your summary to the point.

That's what they look for. My point is that the person who is marking the paper shouldn't have to open a dictionary!