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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: majority of the British nation will neither cleanse themselves nor
let others cleanse them: and are we not governed by majorities?
Are not majorities, confessedly, always in the right, even when
smallest, and a show of hands a surer test of truth than any
amount of wisdom, learning, or virtue? How much more, then, when
a whole free people is arrayed, in the calm magnificence of self-
confident conservatism, against a few innovating and perhaps
sceptical philosophasters? Then surely, if ever, vox populi is
vox coeli.
And, in fact, when we come to examine the first and commonest
objection against sanitary reformers, we find it perfectly
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