Majority

Majority:1) a preponderance
2) more than 50% of some sample
3) a political/legal/cultural averaging of some threshold.At twenty-one the previously judged immature aristocrat becomes legally judged mature: he comes into his majority.

Will the numerical majority ever come into its majority: of wisdom? Will the preponderance of people ever becomes mature? Allow free inquiry? free research? free speculation? churches and governments and universities no longer cowering about public opinion?

Don’t know. But my speculation is NEVER!

Cowering: they all cower; but won’t admit it. And the institutions the majority supports (in their minority) are granted an illusory dignity by that majority, which wills itself blind to that cowering.