It remains an open question, moreover, how much the individual thinker or writer owes to the stimulation of the group in which he lives, and whether he does more than perfect a mental work in which the others have had a simultaneous share.
I like to avoid concessions to faintheartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
Cruelty and intolerance towards those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
A group is subject to the truly magical power of words; they can evoke the most formidable tempests in the group mind, and are also capable of stilling them.