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This many-headed monster, Multitude.
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
 The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make 
the public?
 [Fr., Le public! le read more 
 The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make 
the public?
 [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire 
un public?] 
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .
. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .
 The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how 
otherwise can so many heads agree together read more 
 The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how 
otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
 [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot 
capita in unum conspirare possint?] 
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
 It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires 
of the crowd and their unreasonable read more 
 It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires 
of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.
 [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, 
et absurdas opiniones.] 
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
 We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of 
the people is the voice read more 
 We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of 
the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near 
akin to madness.
 [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; 
cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]