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May 08, 2007
Experts .... and 12 ordinary men
I would rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the Harvard faculty.
Our civilisation has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the things that I felt in the jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
"The Twelve Men," by G. K. Chesterton
Posted at May 8, 2007 12:57 PM | Categories: GK Chesterton
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