jerichoan

Updated: January 11, 2026

Facing that infinitely powerful but inevitably ignorant and cruel corpus of opinion, the individual must needs adopt caution and fall into timorousness. The desire within him may be bold and forthright, but its satisfaction demands discretion, prudence, a politic and ingratiating habit. The walls are not to be stormed; they must be wooed to a sort of Jerichoan fall.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind