"Oh, if you want to learn the spirit of the people by arithmetical computation, of course it's very difficult to arrive at it.

And voting has not been introduced among us and cannot be introduced, for it does not express the will of the people; but there are other ways of reaching that.

It is felt in the air, it is felt by the heart.

I won't speak of those deep currents which are astir in the still ocean of the people, and which are evident to every unprejudiced man; let us look at society in the narrow sense.