[64] William James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 319.
[65] P. G. Hamerton, Thoughts About Art, 222.
[66] Henry D. Lloyd, Man the Social Creator, 101.
[67] I mean merely that the law graduates look sophisticated—not dishonest. They have learned to use voice and facial expression as weapons of controversy.
[68] The Spirit of Laws, book xi, chap. 6.
[69] From a letter written to an American correspondent in 1857 and printed in the appendix to Trevelyan’s Macaulay.
[70] Democracy and Liberty, vol. i, chap. 1, page 25 and passim. Some of Lecky’s expressions, however, are more favorable to democracy.
CHAPTER XIV
DEMOCRACY AND CROWD EXCITEMENT
The Crowd-Theory of Modern Life—The Psychology of Crowds—Modern Conditions Favor Psychological Contagion—Democracy a Training in Self-Control—The Crowd not Always in the Wrong—Conclusion; the Case of France.
Certain writers, impressed with the rise of vast democracies within which space is almost eliminated by ease of communication, hold that we are falling under the rule of Crowds, that is to say, of bodies of men subject by their proximity to waves of impulsive sentiment and action, quite like multitudes in physical contiguity. A crowd is well known to be emotional, irrational and suppressive of individuality: democracy, being the rule of the crowd, will show the same traits.