What Gustave Le Bon thinks about innovation

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French social psychologist (1841 to 1931); author of The Crowd.

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1 dated position, c. 1895, in their own words. Our reading of what Gustave Le Bon has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1895

   Our readingHad democracies held today's power when looms and railways were invented, those inventions would have been impossible or bloody

   Their wordsHad democracies possessed the power they wield to-day at the time of the invention of mechanical looms or of the introduction of steam-power and of railways, the realisation of these inventions would have been impossible, or would have been achieved at the cost of revolutions and repeated massacres.

   ↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book