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crowd-compelling force. The ' enthusiasm of humanity ' 

 has ever been but the passion of the elect. The great 

 mass of mankind does not feel it, and will not feel it 

 till humanity has been welded into an overcrowd by 

 some more potent force. That enthusiasm also would 

 appear to be consequential rather than creative. If hu- 

 manity the whole race of man could be threatened 

 by the inhabitants of some other planet about to invade 

 the Earth, humanity would group itself into a single 

 organised crowd fast enough, having a common inde- 

 pendent exterior crowd to hate and fear; but as no such 

 object of common hostility is as yet apparent, humanity 

 is not now affected by any common emotion powerful 

 enough to weld it into a crowd able to absorb nations 

 and subordinate their several patriotisms. 



SIR MARTIN CONWAY : The Crowd 

 in Peace and War. 



