The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. - John Lancaster Spalding

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.

Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.