The Majority Is Not Always Right
The poorest reason that can be offered for doing a thing is, that "everybody does it." In the first place, that reason is never given when it is the truth. There are very few things in this world that everybody does do; and none of these are likely to be included in an excuse for doing a thing that has been called in question. But even if it is only the great majority that is intended by "everybody," the probability is—the presumption fairly may be—that that majority is in the wrong; for the highest standard of doing is rarely with the majority. In order to do right, one must be willing to be in a minority; unless, indeed, he counts himself in the majority by being all alone with God, on the side of God's choice.—S. S. Times.