Table Talk; Or, Original Essays On Men And Manners 2
Table Talk; Or, Original Essays On Men And Manners 2
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
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Or, suppose a gang of pick-pockets hustle a passenger in the street, and the mob set upon them, and proceed to execute summary justice upon such as they can lay hands on, am I to conclude that the rogues are in the right, bpcause theirs is a system of well-organised knavery, which they settled in the morning, with their eyes one upon the other, and which they regularly review at night, with a due estimate of each other's mo- tives, character, and conduct in the business ; and that the honest me...n are in the wrong, because they are a casual collection of unpre- judiced, disinterested individuals, taken at a venture from the mass of the people, acting without concert or responsibility, on the spur of the occasion, and giving way to their in- stantaneous impulses and honest anger ? Mobs, in fact, then, are almost always right in their s 958 ON CORPORATE BODIES. feelings, and often in their judgments, on this very account--4;hat being utterly unknown to and disconnected with each other, they have no point of union or principle of co^>peration be- tween them, but the natural sense of justice recognised by all persons in common.
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