The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind?
1st Baron Verulam
Education forms the common mind.
There is one mind common to all individual men
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.
