The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 15th, 1919.

'Of this I am certain, that in a democracy the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority, whenever strong divisions prevail in that kind of polity, as they often must, – & that oppression of the minority will extend to far greater numbers, & will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre'.

Edmund Burke.

I finished the Cathedral sermon, & then fell to writing another letter to the 'Times' in answer to the Bishop of Chelmsford who has a column–long effusion in today's issue of the paper. I walked for exercise in the afternoon & then did my correspondence with Wynne Willson.

I bought at the local bookseller's shop a popular edition of Trevelyan's "Life of Macaulay". It is amazingly good reading. After dinner I wrote several letters & so made an end of another wasted week.

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