The Hung Jury, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 125

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The Hung Jury: He appeared to raise the standard of judgment by slaving it to unanimous decision.  But a lynch mob is a unanimous decision.  What he really wanted was to increase our estimation of his verdict to such a height that we would not look so low as the method itself.






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