“If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”

The higher the tax rate the more the substitution effect preponderates and that’s what gives us our Laffer Curve.

If the number of sheep who were black, or even grey, preponderated and if laxity were general in the community, the chapter would not concern itself to raise its own standard.

Nor is it less certain that in civilised, and therefore developed man, the good greatly preponderates over the evil.

On the whole perhaps the good preponderated, for they undoubtedly aided in postponing a revolution for which the world was not yet ready.