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Mob
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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane, like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right;
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― Compensation: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Compensation: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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They are so angry yet so passionately sure of it precisely because they know so little; they fill the gaps in their knowledge with megaphones of gleeful prejudices and satisfying untruths while avoiding unsatisfying truths. Emotions alone hold sway.
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