It would be superfiuous to add that the powerlessness of crowds to reason aright prevents them displaying any trace of the critical spirit, prevents them, that is,from being capable of discerning truth from error,or of forming a precise judgment on any matter.Judgments accepted by crowds are merely judgments forced upon them and never judgments adopted after discussion. In regard to this matter the individuals who do not rise above the level of a crowd are numerous.The ease with which certain opinions obtain general acceptance results more especially from the impossibility experienced by the majority of men of forming an opinion peculiar to themselves and based on reasoning of their own.