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Error, not truth, has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations
Drawn from what Gustave Le Bon said
What Gustave Le Bon actually said
- Gustave Le Bon French social psychologist (1841 to 1931)
Not truth, but error has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations, and the reason why socialism is so powerful to-day is that it constitutes the last illusion that is still vital.
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↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org
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