The
BEHAVIOR OF CROWDS
A Psychological Study
by
Everett Dean Martin
Everett Dean Martin
Lecturer in Social Philosophy and Director of the Cooper
Union Forum of the Peoples Institute of New York
Union Forum of the Peoples Institute of New York
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Behavior of Crowds
Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Foreword | vii | |
| I. | The Crowd and the Social Problem of To-day | 1 |
| II. | How Crowds Are Formed | 11 |
| III. | The Crowd and the Unconscious | 51 |
| IV. | The Egoism of the Crowd-Mind | 73 |
| V. | The Crowd a Creature of Hate | 92 |
| VI. | The Absolutism of the Crowd-Mind | 133 |
| VII. | The Psychology of Revolutionary Crowds | 166 |
| VIII. | The Fruits of Revolution—New Crowd-Tyrannies for Old | 219 |
| IX. | Freedom and Government by Crowds | 233 |
| X. | Education as a Possible Cure for Crowd-Thinking | 281 |
| Index | 305 | |
FOREWORD
Since the publication of Le Bons book,The Crowd, little has been added to ourknowledge of the mechanisms of crowd-behavior.As a practical problem, the habitof crowd-making is daily becoming a moreserious menace to civilization. Events aremaking it more and more clear that, pressingas a
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