They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion. . .
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 58 (1929; rev. 1970), on the popular mood when inflamed by newspapers.
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.