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Excitement Versus Reason

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 9.

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Excitement Versus Reason

When people of any class come together under excitement they are pretty sure to do that which very few of them would do as individuals in cooler mood. So the Christian Advocate says: "Were all the resolutions passed under the influence of excitement, that are proved to be ridiculous by subsequent events, to be published, they would make more amusing reading than the writings of Artemus Ward or Petroleum V. Nasby." And they would illustrate the fickleness of humanity when acting on impulse rather than on reason and rational deliberation.