The Psychology of Revolution

Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841-Dec. 13, 1931) was born in France. He was a French social psychologist and is most famous for his study of the psychological characteristics of crowds. After being rewarded with a doctorate in medicine, Le Bon went to Europe, North Africa, and Asia and wrote many books on anthropology and archaeology. His interests turned toward natural science and social psychology. In Les Lois's psychologiques de l'évolution des peuples (1894), he improved a view that history is the product of culture or national character, with feelings, not intelligence. Le Bon accepted that modern life was progressively described by crowd assemblages. In La Psychologie des Foules (1895), (The Crowd), his most famous work, he argued that the mindful personality of the person in a crowd is immersed and that the collective crowd mind rules; crowd behavior is united, emotional, or psychologically weak.

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The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. Mechanics is losing its axioms, and matter, formerly the eternal substratum of the worlds, becomes a simple aggregate of ephemeral forces in transitory condensation.