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12. Then what is public opinion, which rules almost as sole monarch of the day. but the mere adoption by the masses, without thought or investigation, of opinions advanced by certain leaders be they politicians - reformers or theologians. Really, ignorance is at the root of prejudice. A man of strong prejudices is generally a man of fearful ignorance in some things at least. A man by shutting himself up at home, depriving himself of all society superior to those around him may come at last to think himself a king of [sic: or] pope but let him break through his seclusion and he will be surprised to find that he has thought "himself to be something when he was nothing."Sometimes we get strange notions into our heads respecting our particular denominations or church. Confined almost wholly within the circle of home - we talk of our church as the biggest - our Sunday School as the best our denomination as the most prosperous