CROWDS

A MOVING-PICTUREOF 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 YORKDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

Copyright, 1913, by
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
All rights reserved, including that oftranslation 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?
       
    • II. THE CROWD SCARE
       
    • III. THE MACHINE SCARE
       
    • IV. THE STRIKE—AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS THINK
       
    • V. THE CROWD-MAN—AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS SEE
       
    • VI. THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS
       
    • VII. IMAGINATION ABOUT THE UNSEEN
       
    • VIII. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT THE FUTURE
       
    • IX. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT PEOPLE
       
    • X. A DEMOCRATIC THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE
       
    • XI. DOING AS ONE WOULD WISH ONE HAD DONE IN TWENTY YEARS
       
    • XII. NEW KINDS AND NEW SIZES OF MEN
       

     
  • BOOK TWO

    LETTING THE CROWDS BE GOOD