on him who would rouse this fury from its den! It is astonishing, it
is too little known, how much individual character is lost in the
aggregate character of a multitude. Men may be rational, moderate,
peaceful, loyal, and sober, as individuals; yet heap them by the
thousand, and in the very progress of congregation, loyalty,
quietness, moderation, and reason evaporate, and a multitude of
rational beings is an unreasonable and intemperate being—a wild,
infuriated monster, which may be driven, but not led, except to
mischief—which has an appetite for blood, and a savage joy in
destruction, for the mere gratification of destroying."