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Title: Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Release Date: May 3, 2005 [EBook #15759]
Language: English
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CROWDS
A MOVING-PICTURE OF 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 YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
_Copyright, 1913, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY _All rights reserved, including that of translation 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? 3
II. THE CROWD SCARE 19
III. THE MACHINE SCARE 34
IV. THE STRIKE--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS THINK 49
V. THE CROWD-MAN--AN INVENTION FOR MAKING CROWDS SEE 58
VI. THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS 65
VII. IMAGINATION ABOUT THE UNSEEN 66
VIII. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT THE FUTURE 69
IX. THE CROWD'S IMAGINATION ABOUT PEOPLE 74
X. A DEMOCRATIC THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE 76
XI. DOING AS ONE WOULD WISH ONE HAD DONE IN TWENTY YEARS 80
XII. NEW KINDS AND NEW SIZES OF MEN 86
BOOK TWO
LETTING THE CROWDS BE GOOD
I. SPEAKING AS ONE OF THE CROWD 93
II. IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE EFFICIENT? 96
III. IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE INTERESTING? 103
IV. PROSPECTS OF THE LIAR 107
V. PROSPECTS OF THE BULLY 111
VI. GOODNESS AS A CROWD-PROCESS 114
VII. THOUGHTS ON BEING IMPROVED BY OTHER PEOPLE 116
VIII. MAKING GOODNESS HURRY 125
IX. TOUCHING THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS 128
X. THE STUPENDOUS, THE UNUSUAL, THE MONOTONOUS AND THE SUCCESSFUL 142
XI. THE SUCCESSFUL 146
XII. THE NECKS OF THE WICKED 154
XIII. IS IT WRONG FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL? 163
XIV. IS IT SECOND RATE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL? 167
XV. THE SUCCESSFUL TEMPERAMENT 173
XVI. THE MEN AHEAD PULL 178
XVII. THE CROWDS PUSH 184
XVIII. THE MAN WHO SAYS HOW, SAYS HOW 186
XIX. AND THE MACHINE STARTS! 194
BOOK THREE
LETTING THE CROWD BE BEAUTIFUL

PART I. WISTFUL MILLIONAIRES
I. MR. CARNEGIE SPEAKS UP 205
II. MR. CARNEGIE TRIES TO MAKE PEOPLE READ 208
III. MR. NOBEL TRIES TO MAKE PEOPLE WRITE 211
IV. PAPER BOOKS, MARBLE PILLARS, AND WOODEN BOYS 221
V. THE HUMDRUM FACTORY AND THE TUMPTY-TUM THEATRE 227

PART II. IRON MACHINES
I. STEEPLES AND CHIMNEYS 236
II. BELLS AND WHEELS 240
III. DEW AND ENGINES 243
IV. DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL! 245
V. AN OXFORD MAN AND AN INCH OF IRON 248
VI. THE MACHINES' MACHINES 250
VII. THE MEN'S MACHINES 252
VIII. THE BASEMENT OF THE WORLD 256
IX. THE GROUND FLOOR FOLKS 262
X. THE MACHINE-TRAINERS 266
XI. MACHINES, CROWDS, AND ARTISTS 269

PART III. PEOPLE-MACHINES
I. NOW! 280
II. COMMITTEES AND COMMITTEES 288
III. THE INCONVENIENCE OF BEING HUMAN 286
IV. LETTING THE CROWD HAVE PEOPLE IN IT 290
BOOK FOUR
CROWDS AND HEROES
I. THE SOCIALIST AND THE HERO 297
II. THE CROWD AND THE HERO 301
III. THE CROWD AND THE AVERAGE PERSON 303
IV. THE CROWD AND PIERPONT MORGAN 307
V. THE CROWD AND TOM MANN 313
VI. AN OPENING FOR THE NEXT PIERPONT MORGAN 323
VII. AN OPENING FOR THE NEXT TOM MANN 327
VIII. THE MEN WHO LOOK 331
IX. WHO IS AFRAID? 337
X. RULES FOR TELLING A HERO--WHEN ONE SEES ONE 343
XI. THE TECHNIQUE OF COURAGE 346
XII. THE MEN WHO WANT THINGS 349
XIII. MEN WHO GET THINGS 356
XIV. SOURCES OF COURAGE FOR OTHERS--TOLERATION 364
XV. CONVERSION 371
XVI. EXCEPTION 380
XVII. INVENTION 383
XVIII. THE MAN WHO PULLS THE WORLD TOGETHER 397
XIX. THE MAN WHO STANDS BY 400
XX. THE STRIKE OF THE SAVIOURS 402
XXI. THE LEAGUE OF THE MEN WHO ARE NOT AFRAID 404
BOOK FIVE
GOOD NEWS AND HARD WORK

PART I. NEWS AND LABOUR 413

PART II. NEWS AND MONEY 422

PART III. NEWS AND GOVERNMENT
I. OXFORD STREET AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 431
II. OXFORD STREET HUMS, THE HOUSE HEMS 440
III. PRESIDENT WILSON AND MOSES 449
IV. THE PRESIDENT SAYS YES AND NO 455
V. THE PRESIDENT SAYS "LOOK!" 463
VI. THE PEOPLE SAY "WHO ARE YOU?" 469
VII. THE PEOPLE SAY