The Philosophy of the Human Voice #262237

But the mass-meeting, not to lessen its little dignity, by drop ping even a letter, is still a mass, and will have its own stubborn and head-strong way. The work therefore, of which I here offer the fourth edition, much enlarged, must, I suppose, be tried, and I fear condemned by its rules. For if the voice of the times, joining immediately in the advancement of any point of knowledge, is the test of its truth, merely because the mind of the times, has up to the last step, produced the advancement.