DOI Artikel:
Le Gallienne, Richard: Four prose fancies
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Four Prose Fancies
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opinion ” but the blustering echoes of the opinion of a few clever
young men on the morning papers ?
For how can people in themselves little become great by merely
congregating into a crowd, however large ? And surely fools do
not become wise, or worth listening to, merely by the fact of
their banding together.
A “ public opinion ” on any matter except football, prize-
fighting, and perhaps cricket, is merely ridiculous—by whatever
brutal physical powers it may be enforced—ridiculous as a town
council’s opinion upon art; and a nation is merely a big fool with
an army.
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opinion ” but the blustering echoes of the opinion of a few clever
young men on the morning papers ?
For how can people in themselves little become great by merely
congregating into a crowd, however large ? And surely fools do
not become wise, or worth listening to, merely by the fact of
their banding together.
A “ public opinion ” on any matter except football, prize-
fighting, and perhaps cricket, is merely ridiculous—by whatever
brutal physical powers it may be enforced—ridiculous as a town
council’s opinion upon art; and a nation is merely a big fool with
an army.