I ceased to be the Democritus, or laughing philosopher of Hillsborough, and became a low uneducated brute of a workman.

Then I asked this brute, viz, myself, why I was staring and glaring in that way, stupidly astonished, at the injured man?
'Were you concerned in the criminal act, ye blackguard ?' said I to myself.

The next step was to put myself in the place of the criminal.

I did so; and I realized that I, the criminal, had done the act to please the Unions, and expecting the sympathy of all Union workmen to be with me.

Also that I, being an ignorant brute, had never pictured to myself what suffering I should inflict.