Social Equality: a Short Study in a Missing Science
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But this is pos- sible only on one obvious supposition, that there is a uniformity in the development of human character itself ; and that however it varies, it varies according to law, just as surely as the circumstances which are the cause of its variation. Let us take, for instance, the case of a vast mob of enthusiasts, inspired like one man, with a single purpose, such as taking the BastUle, we wiU say, or destroying the Hyde Park railings. Now it is plain that no member of either of the m...obs in question could completely explain his part in it, by any personal confessions of his own. Events 110 THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN CHABACTER. and circumstances are involved in each case, which may be traced out by the historian, but which are invisible and unknown to the actors. But there are two points to remem- ber. A mob collects and acts, Buckle tells us, owing to certain remote causes outside the lives of its members, and in obedience to some general law. We may freely admit that. But in the first place, be the law never so general, and the causes never so re- mote, the law exists, and the effect follows the causes, only in virtue of each mobsman being a man of certain character.
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