Crowds / A Moving-Picture of Democracy
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
Copyright, 1913, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY CO. COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY, INCORPORATED BOOKS By GERALD STANLEY LEE THE LOST ART OF READING A Sketch of Civilization THE CHILD AND THE BOOK A Constructive Criticism of Education THE SHADOW CHRIST A Study of the Hebrew Men of Genius THE VOICE OF THE MACHINES An Introduction to the Twentieth Century INSPIRED MILLIONAIRES A Study of the Man of Genius in Business CROWDS A Moving Picture of Democracy
Gratefully inscribed to a little Mountain, a great Meadow, and a Woman. To the Mountain for the sense of time, to the Meadow for the sense of space, and to the Woman for the sense of everything.
TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
A battered, wrecked old man Thrown on this savage shore far, far from home, Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows twelve dreary months ... The end I know not, it is all in Thee, Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands!...
And these things I see suddenly, what mean they As if some miracle, some hand divine unsealed my eyes, Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky, And on the distant waves sail countless ships, And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.
The best picture I know of my religion is Ludgate Hill as one sees it going down the foot of Fleet Street. It would seem to many perhaps like a rather strange half-heathen altar, but it has in it the three things with which I worship most my Maker in this present world—the three things which it would be the breath of religion to me to offer to a God together—Cathedrals, Crowds, and Machines.
With the railway bridge reaching over, all the little still locomotives in the din whispering across the street; with the wide black crowd streaming up and streaming down, and the big, faraway, other-worldly church above, I am strangely glad. It is like having a picture of one's whole world taken up deftly, and done in miniature and hung up for one against the sky—the white steam which is the breath of modern life, the vast hurrying of our feet, and that Great Finger pointing toward heaven day and night for us all....
Gerald Stanley Lee
CROWDS
A MOVING-PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY
GERALD STANLEY LEE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CROWDS AND MACHINES
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
THE CROWD SCARE
THE MACHINE SCARE
THE STRIKE—AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS THINK
THE CROWD-MAN—AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS SEE
THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS
IMAGINATION ABOUT THE UNSEEN
THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT THE FUTURE
THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT PEOPLE
A DEMOCRATIC THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE
DOING AS ONE WOULD WISH ONE HAD DONE IN TWENTY YEARS
NEW KINDS AND NEW SIZES OF MEN
LETTING THE CROWDS BE GOOD
SPEAKING AS ONE OF THE CROWD
IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE EFFICIENT?
IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE INTERESTING?
PROSPECTS OF THE LIAR
PROSPECTS OF THE BULLY
GOODNESS AS A CROWD-PROCESS
THOUGHTS ON BEING IMPROVED BY OTHER PEOPLE
MAKING GOODNESS HURRY
TOUCHING THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS
THE STUPENDOUS, THE UNUSUAL, THE MONOTONOUS, AND THE SUCCESSFUL
THE SUCCESSFUL
THE NECKS OF THE WICKED
IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
IS IT SECOND RATE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?
THE SUCCESSFUL TEMPERAMENT
THE MEN AHEAD PULL
THE CROWDS PUSH
THE MAN WHO SAYS HOW, SAYS HOW
AND THE MACHINE STARTS
LETTING THE CROWD BE BEAUTIFUL
WISTFUL MILLIONAIRES
CHAPTER I
MR. CARNEGIE SPEAKS UP
MR. CARNEGIE TRIES TO MAKE PEOPLE READ
MR. NOBEL TRIES TO MAKE PEOPLE WRITE
PAPER BOOKS, MARBLE PILLARS, AND WOODEN BOYS
THE HUMDRUM FACTORY AND THE TUMPTY-TUM THEATRE
IRON MACHINES
CHAPTER I
STEEPLES AND CHIMNEYS
BELLS AND WHEELS
DEW AND ENGINES
DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL!
AN OXFORD MAN AND AN INCH OF IRON
THE MACHINES' MACHINES
THE MEN'S MACHINES
THE BASEMENT OF THE WORLD
THE GROUND FLOOR FOLKS
THE MACHINE-TRAINERS
MACHINES, CROWDS, AND ARTISTS
PEOPLE-MACHINES
CHAPTER I
NOW!
COMMITTEES AND COMMITTEES
THE INCONVENIENCE OF BEING HUMAN
LETTING THE CROWD HAVE PEOPLE IN IT
CROWDS AND HEROES
THE SOCIALIST AND THE HERO
THE CROWD AND THE HERO
THE CROWD AND THE AVERAGE PERSON
THE CROWD AND PIERPONT MORGAN
THE CROWD AND TOM MANN
AN OPENING FOR THE NEXT PIERPONT MORGAN
AN OPENING FOR THE NEXT TOM MANN
THE MEN WHO LOOK
RULES FOR TELLING A HERO—WHEN ONE SEES ONE
WHO IS AFRAID?
THE TECHNIQUE OF COURAGE
THE MEN WHO WANT THINGS
MEN WHO GET THINGS
SOURCES OF COURAGE FOR OTHERS—TOLERATION
CONVERSION
EXCEPTION
INVENTION
THE MAN WHO PULLS THE WORLD TOGETHER
THE MAN WHO STANDS BY
THE STRIKE OF THE SAVIOURS
THE LEAGUE OF THE MEN WHO ARE NOT AFRAID
GOOD NEWS AND HARD WORK
NEWS AND LABOUR
NEWS AND MONEY
NEWS AND GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER I
OXFORD STREET AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
OXFORD STREET HUMS. THE HOUSE HEMS
PRESIDENT WILSON AND MOSES
THE PRESIDENT SAYS YES AND NO
THE PRESIDENT SAYS "LOOK!"
THE PEOPLE SAY "WHO ARE YOU?"
THE PEOPLE SAY "WHO ARE WE?"
NEWS ABOUT US TO THE PRESIDENT
NEWS-MEN
AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
NEWS-BOOKS
NEWS-BOOKS II
NEWS-PAPERS
NEWS-MACHINES
NEWS-CROWDS
CROWD-MEN
THE BEGINNING.