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THE CROWD

A Study of the Popular Mind

Gustave Le Bon

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Mineola, New York

Publisher's Note: Some of the opinions presented in this book reflect

attitudes that were common among some writers on social issues

during the final years of the nineteenth century, in Europe and the

United States, but no longer are common.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged republication of

the second English-language edition of the work originally published in France as

La psychologie des joules in 1895 and first published in English in 1896 by

T. Fisher Unwin, London.

Library of Congress

Cataloging-in-Publication

Data

Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931.

[Psychologie des foules. English]

The crowd : a study of the popular mind / Gustave Le Bon.

p. cm.

An unabridged republication of a standard English translation of the work

originally published in 1895 in France as La psychologie des foules.

ISBN 0-486-41956-8 (pbk.)

1. Crowds. I. Title.

HM871 .L4 2001

302.3'3—dc21

2001028670

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

Preface

teristics of crowds.

The whole of the common characteristics with which hered-

ity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the

race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are

gathered together in a crowd for purposes of action, observation

proves that, from the mere fact of their being assembled, there

result certain new psychological characteristics, which are

added to the racial characteristics and differ from them at times

to a very considerable degree.

Organised crowds have always played an important part in the

life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as

at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds

for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal

characteristics of the present age.

I have endeavoured to examine the difficult problem presented

by crowds in a purely scientific manner—that is, by making an

effort to proceed with method, and without being influenced by

opinions, theories, and doctrines. This, I believe, is the only

mode of arriving at the discovery of some few particles of truth,

especially when dealing, as is the case here, with a question that

is the subject of impassioned controversy. A man of science bent

on verifying a phenomenon is not called upon to concern him-

self with the interests his verifications may hurt. In a recent

publication an eminent thinker, M. Goblet d'Alviela, made the

remark that, belonging to none of the contemporary schools, I

am occasionally found in opposition of sundry of the conclusions

of all of them. I hope this new work will merit a similar obser-

vation. To belong to a school is necessarily to espouse its preju-

dices and preconceived opinions.

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