Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd:
Introduction, “The Era of Crowds”
The evolution of the present age — The great changes in civilization are the consequence of changes in National thought — Modern belief in the power of crowds — It transforms the traditional policy of the European states — How the rise of the popular classes comes about, and the manner in which they exercise their power — The necessary consequences of...
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Preface
The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds.The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity 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,...
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Editor’s Note: The Code of Manu (circa. 200 BC – 200 AD) is the earliest known work of Hindu law. The following discussion is from section no. 57 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ. The translation is by H. L. Menken. The paragraph breaks have been introduced for online readability. The ellipses are Nietzsche’s.A book of laws such as the Code of Manu...
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Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 43 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.43. Whispered to the conservatives. — What was not known formerly, what is known, or might be known, today: a reversion, a return in any sense or degree is simply not possible. We physiologists know that. Yet all priests...
Read MoreOswald Spengler on World Peace
“Is World Peace Possible?”A cabled reply to an American pollFirst published in Cosmopolitan, January, 1936The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most...
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Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols. A discussion question: How might Nietzsche be used to explain why America’s founding generation and the presidents drawn from it were greater than every subsequent generation brought up under the system they...
Read MoreNietzsche’s Critique of Modernity
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we...
Read MoreD. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Novels
Chapter 5 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureIn his Leatherstocking books, Fenimore is off on another track. He is no longer concerned with social white Americans that buzz with pins through them, buzz loudly against every mortal thing except the pin itself. The pin of the Great Ideal.One gets irritated with Cooper because he never for once snarls at the Great Ideal Pin...
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Chapter 2 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureThe Perfectibility of Man! Ah heaven, what a dreary theme! The perfectibility of the Ford car! The perfectibility of which man? I am many men. Which of them are you going to perfect? I am not a mechanical contrivance.Education! Which of the various me’s do you propose to educate, and which do you propose to...
Read MoreD. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s White Novels
Chapter 4 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureBenjamin Franklin had a specious little equation in providential mathematics:Rum + Savage = 0. Awfully nice! You might add up the universe to nought, if you kept on.Rum plus Savage may equal a dead savage. But is a dead savage nought? Can you make a land virgin by killing off its aborigines ?The Aztec is gone, and the...
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