The Crowd : A Study of the Popular Mind

Complete 1896 original edition of The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon is the first popularist study of mob psychology which influenced Mussolini, Hitler, and scores more for over 100 years.

"The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles."

Study the "magnetic influence given out by the crowd" in this historic book that has for over 12 decades! This 1896 edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE             3

INTRODUCTION THE ERA OF CROWDS    5

BOOK I: THE MIND OF CROWDS 10

CHAPTER I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CROWDS- PSYCHOLOGICAL LAW OF THEIR MENTAL UNITY    10

CHAPTER II THE SENTIMENTS AND MORALITY OF CROWDS           15

CHAPTER III THE IDEAS, REASONING POWER, AND IMAGINATION OF CROWDS    26

CHAPTER IV A RELIGIOUS SHAPE ASSUMED BY ALL THE CONVICTIONS OF CROWDS           31

BOOK II: THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS            35

CHAPTER I REMOTE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS            35

CHAPTER II THE IMMEDIATE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS OF CROWDS     45

CHAPTER III THE LEADERS OF CROWDS AND THEIR MEANS OF PERSUASION         52

CHAPTER IV LIMITATIONS OF THE VARIABILITY OF THE BELIEFS AND OPINIONS OF CROWDS          63

BOOK III: THE CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CROWDS 70

CHAPTER I THE CLASSIFICATION OF CROWDS      70

CHAPTER II CROWDS TERMED CRIMINAL CROWDS           72

CHAPTER III CRIMINAL JURIES    75

CHAPTER IV ELECTORAL CROWDS            78

CHAPTER V PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLIES           83