At this stage a new civilisation, with its institutions, its beliefs, and its arts, may be born. In pursuit of its ideal, the race will acquire in succession the qualities necessary to give it splendour, vigour, and grandeur. At times no doubt it will still be a crowd, but henceforth, beneath the mobile and changing characteristics of crowds, is found a solid substratum, the genius of the race which confines within narrow limits the transformations of a nation and overrules the play of chance
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黄芷瑶
The Mob is not only a classic work on group psychology, but also a work that overturns people's traditional understanding of groups. It describes the general characteristics of group psychology in detail, analyzes the psychological, moral, and behavioral characteristics of people in a group state, and has exerted great influence on the understanding of the role of collective behavior and the thinking of social psychology.