| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: and wishing to leave the hall.''
According to the suggestions of the leaders, the multitude will
be calm, furious, criminal, or heroic. These various suggestions
may sometimes appear to present a rational aspect, but they will
only appear to be reasonable. A crowd is in reality inaccessible
to reason; the only ideas capable of influencing it will always
be sentiments evoked in the form of images.
The history of the Revolution shows on every page how easily the
multitude follows the most contradictory impulses given by
its different leaders. We see it applaud just as vigorously at
the triumph of the Girondists, the Hebertists, the Dantonists,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: upon a theory wonderfully elaborated and worked out.
Perhaps you have heard of Emanuel Torr and his colony,
his System?"
Thorpe shook his head.
"He had worked tremendously for years at it. He fell
ill and went away--and in a day all the results of his
labours and outlay were flat on the ground. The property
is mine now, and it is farmed and managed again in the
ordinary way, and really the people there seem already
to have forgotten that they had a prophet among them.
The marvelous character of the man--you look in vain
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: hand."
"Drapery always comes out well," replied the painter. "We should be
only too happy, we modern artists, if we could touch the perfection of
antique drapery."
"So you like drapery!" cried old Guillaume. "Well, then, by Gad! shake
hands on that, my young friend. Since you can respect trade, we shall
understand each other. And why should it be despised? The world began
with trade, since Adam sold Paradise for an apple. He did not strike a
good bargain though!" And the old man roared with honest laughter,
encouraged by the champagne, which he sent round with a liberal hand.
The band that covered the young artist's eyes was so thick that he
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