One by One

Posted by: Josef Essberger

Everything goes full circle sooner or later

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Posted by Josef Essberger August 2021
Josef founded EnglishClub for learners and teachers of English in 1997

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5 comments

• Jaks says:
  

  They shoot dogs don’t they?

• Gene says:
  

  i don’t get it. why australia is upsidedown

• Vera They says:
  

  haha 😂 Finally Australia at top of the world

• Allan Hays says:
  

  This is certainly true!I am reading his lengthy book at the moment and the folly of the herd instinct is abundantly clear. We are a strange species.

• Matt Downing says:
  

  Full circle as from prison colony and back to prison colony 😂