13/21 Which would give the most impartial vote--he who, of necessity, must be swayed by his personal interest, or he who has no inducement of the sort to go astray ?" "Certainly he who has nothing to influence him to go wrong. But the question is not fairly put--" "Your pardon, Sir John--it is put fairly as an abstract question, and one that is to prove a principle. I am glad to hear you say that a man would be apt to decide in this manner; for it shows his identity with a monikin. We hold that all of us are apt to think most of ourselves on such occasions." "My dear brigadier, do not mistake sophistry for reason. Surely, if power belonged only to the poor--and the poor, or the comparatively poor, always compose the mass--they would exercise it in a way to strip the rich of their possessions." "We think not, in Leaplow. |