Same guy, Same publication

"The crowd compels us to adopt its language, manners, morals, and religion; and it is a rare freedom in human life when even a slight personal originality in any of these matters - or even in dress - is not crushed at once by universal obloquy and persecution. This is not because the public is wicked but because it is the public - which is hardly its own fault. Society suffocates liberty merely by existing, and it must exist, and all its mem.bers are equally its slaves."

TSORon don't quote what you don't understand.