law-assemblies

Updated: May 15, 2025

And this is the special gift which endows the uncultured masses with an occasional sweeping advantage over the cultured few, the superiority of their INSTINCT. As in cases of political revolution for example, while the finely educated orator is endeavoring by all the force of artful rhetoric to prove that all is in order and as it should be, the mob, moved by one tremendous impulse, discover for themselves that everything is wrong, and moreover that nothing will come right, unless they rise up and take authority, . . accordingly, down go the thrones and the colleges, the palaces, the temples, and the law-assemblies, all like so many toys before the resistless instinct of the people, who revolt at injustice, and who feel and know when they are injured, though they are not clever enough to explain WHERE their injury lies.

Marie Corelli - Ardath