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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to
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lead, and Siµos, the
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people)  , a
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leader of the popular as opposed to any other party . Being particularly used with an invidious sense of a
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mob leader or orator, one who for his own
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political ends panders to the passions and prejudices of the
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people, the word has come to mean an unprincipled agitator .

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