Yet when the crimes of that party became so brazen that even the blind could see them, it needed but to muster up its minions, and its supremacy was assured.
Thus the very victims, duped, betrayed, outraged a hundred times, decided, not against, but in favor of the victor.
Bewildered, the few asked how could the majority betray the traditions of American liberty? Where was its judgment, its reasoning capacity? That is just it, the majority cannot reason; it has no judgment.
Lacking utterly in originality and moral courage, the majority has always placed its destiny in the hands of others. Incapable of standing responsibilities, it has followed its leaders even unto destruction. Dr. Stockman was right: "The most dangerous enemies of truth and justice in our midst are the compact majorities, the damned compact majority."
Without ambition or initiative, the compact mass hates nothing so much as innovation. It has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.
El eslogan que se repite con frecuencia en nuestra época, entre todos los políticos, socialistas incluidos, es que la nuestra es una era de individualismo, de la minoría. Solo aquellos que no escrutan bajo la superficie pueden dejarse llevar por esta opinión.
¿Acaso los pocos no han acumulado la riqueza del mundo? ¿No son los amos, los reyes absolutos de la situación?
Su éxito, sin embargo, no se debe al individualismo, sino a la inercia, la cobardía, la sumisión absoluta de la masa. Esta última solo quiere ser dominada, ser guiada, ser coaccionada.
En cuanto al individualismo, en ningún momento de la historia humana ha tenido menos posibilidades de expresión, menos oportunidades de afirmarse de manera normal y saludable.