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Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture — all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising. In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall." - Gustave Le Bon, from Introduction

Genres: Psychology , Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Running Time: 05 hours 52 minutes 04 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Preface, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Oxenhandler	8:32
2	Introduction, The Era of Crowds Oxenhandler	16:04
3	General Characteristics of Crowds— Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity Oxenhandler	20:25
4	The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds Oxenhandler	44:45
5	The Ideas, Reasoning Power and Imagination of Crowds Oxenhandler	20:18
6	A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Convictions of Crowds Oxenhandler	11:12
7	Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds Oxenhandler	41:15
8	The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds Oxenhandler	27:47
9	The Leaders of Crowds and their Means of Persuasion Oxenhandler	42:35
10	Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds Oxenhandler	23:59
11	The Classification of Crowds Oxenhandler	7:46
12	Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds Oxenhandler	9:12
13	Criminal Juries Oxenhandler	16:00
14	Electoral Crowds Oxenhandler	19:22
15	Parliamentary Assemblies Oxenhandler	42:52