Public Opinion

But if he is still curious and open-minded, the novelty is taken into the picture, and allowed to modify it.

If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds through which they have filtered it.

The more points, then, at which any happening can be fixed, objectified, measured, named, the more points there are at which news can occur.

is at these places that marriages, births, deaths, contracts, failures, arrivals, departures, lawsuits, disorders, epidemics and calamities are made known.