to the other on these matters.

The little tale suffices to show that we may rightly take exception to
the judgments of the mob. That being so, in what sense is it true, as I
have read in a certain passage, that the voice of the people is the
voice of God?

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 6: A city on the shores of Thracia.]




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XXIV

THE ACORN AND THE PUMPKIN

(BOOK IX.--No. 4)


What God does is done well. Without going round the world to seek a
proof of that, I can find one in the pumpkin.

A villager was once struck with the largeness of a pumpkin and the
thinness of the stem upon which it grew. "What could the Almighty have
been thinking about?" he cried. "He has certainly chosen a bad place for
a pumpkin to grow. Eh zounds! Now I would have hung it on one of these