especially when the test group of scholars is self-selected and represents only one portion of the spectrum of scholarly opinion. While the voting may make the process appear democratic, the preselection of the fellows, the exclusion of the majority of scholars, the disregard for the vox populi and, perhaps most tellingly, the disregard for the opinions of scholars of previous generations, shows that we are dealing ultimately with an elitist and not a democratic approach.
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