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The reason you won't pick up on this is an argument in its favour.
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. But, good Lord!-you can never pretend that it is right that the stupid folk should govern the clever ones I (Uproar and cries.) Oh, yes-you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side-unfortunately- but right it has not. I am in the right- I and a few other scattered individuals.