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LOGIC WINS IN THE STRETCH.
At seven o'clock we met again and several men made short talks opposing the strike.

Each fellow, when he got up, seemed to have a lot of ideas, but when he tried to express them he grew confused, and after stammering a while he could only put forth the bare opinion, "I don't think we ought to strike." This meeting was quite different from the other one.
Here every man was thinking for himself but nobody could say anything.
In the previous meeting the speakers had talked passionately, and the rest had been swept along with them as a unit.

In other words, the first session had become group-minded instead of individual-minded.

It is like the difference between a stampede and a deliberative body.