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Title: Crowds
A Moving-Picture of Democracy

Author: Gerald Stanley Lee

Release Date: May 3, 2005 [EBook #15759]

Language: English

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CROWDS

A MOVING-PICTURE
OF DEMOCRACY

BY

GERALD STANLEY LEE

_Editor of "Mount Tom"_

IN FIVE BOOKS
CROWDS AND MACHINES
LETTING THE CROWD BE GOOD
LETTING THE CROWD BE BEAUTIFUL
CROWDS AND HEROES
GOOD NEWS AND HARD WORK

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._

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

CROWDS AND MACHINES

I. WHERE ARE WE GOING? 3

II. THE CROWD SCARE 19

III. THE MACHINE SCARE 34

IV. THE STRIKE--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS THINK 49

V. THE CROWD-MAN--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS SEE 58

VI. THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS 65

VII. IMAGINATION ABOUT THE UNSEEN 66

VIII. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT THE FUTURE 69

IX. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT PEOPLE 74

X. A DEMOCRATIC THEORY O