Democracy as a form government can survive only if there is meaning in democracy as as moral enterprise. A distinguished political scientist here issues a grave warning that the real threat to democracy today is internal a betrayal in the minds and hearts of its citizens of the faith which gives it life. Democracy is a creation of the great Hebraic-Greek-Christian tradition; it cannot exist except as an active embodiment of the ideas of the nature and end of man as expressed in that tradition. The corruption of its political institutions inevitably follows the perversion of its ethical principles.