"...the serious conclusion of a sane man is very valuable- if you can get it."

Thus we may say that the whole case against democracy and for democracy is commonly stated wrong. It is not that the conclusion of a common man is worthless; the serious conclusion of a sane man is very valuable- if you can get it. The trouble is not that the ordinary sensible man is uninstructed. The trouble is that he is instructed- instructed out of his senses. The man calls himself Agnostic who would naturally have called himself ignorant; but ignorance is higher. The average man, even the modern man, has a great deal to teach us. But the nuisance is that he won't teach it; he will only repeat what he has been taught. We have almost to torture him till he says what he does think, just as men once tortured a heretic till he said what he didn't think. We have to dig up the modern man as if he were Paleolithic man.

-March 16, 1909, Illustrated London News